Dochtersions: Hello everybody! Under the name "dochtersions" I started, at the suggestion of my dear husband, in sharing my photos, fractals, and also some paintings, and other 2D art here at Renderosity. That was in January of 2010. I still use my two owls as avatar, which is a reduced image of one of my oil paintings.
The name "dochtersions" came into my head as only one, when I was looking for a name for my blog that I started in 2007.
This name is not that strange, as I know that God is my real father and mother at the same time, and I know that God loves me more and deeper than a man can aware of (or at least I think this way)
I live in the South of The Netherlands together with my retired husband. I've had various occupations. In my last job, I was working as an assistant to a paediatrician and a rehabilitation specialist. When I had children, I graduated "health awareness", and gave lectures on various topics, plus vegetarian cooking classes to teenagers.
My husband and I have together two daughters and four grandchildren. Which all live abroad, to be precise in Lacey (WA-USA) and Davos in Switzerland.
I've always been busy with all kinds of creativity. As a child I drew a lot, later pottery, needle art, tapestries, weaving, batik art, macramé, etc. Painting with oil was my last great hobby.
Around about the year 2000 I started having unexplained physical symptoms as well as insomnia, which was later diagnosed as having PTSD. It turned out that I had repressed a traumatized youth. However, the physical symptoms made that I no longer could be busy with my passions, the real painting, and other activities (f.e. reading books, gardening, travelling), which I was doing without a limit.
What I can stay doing well in limited form, is playing music on my mandolin and my guitar, and also to enjoy/listen my favourite music, which is including the cantatas of J.S. Bach and his sons , f.e. also music from G.F. Handel, G.Ph. Telemann, a.s.o. This is also the kind of music that my husband (on its church organ) and I (on my mandolin) play together.
After being diagnosed with PTSD a lot changed and I was forced to look for alternatives in which I could express myself. That is, that for years I started writing, and poetry, which go quite intense and as a sort of automatic. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the English language is not sufficient enough, so I write in my mother tongue, with sometimes a few exceptions. The thoughts come to my mind right at unexpected moments, and it’s wonderful, to surrendering to your train of thoughts.
In the encounter more and more of impossibilities, in connection with, f.e continuous pains, I learned to shift my gaze. Searching for distractions and alternatives, I learned to focus my happy mind on all the wonderful and admirable little things in the world around me.
My husband since 1968 Karel (kareldg on RR) bought a small pocket camera for me, and taught me to work with Fractal Explorer. Through my little Sony camera I learned to look differently, to see deeper; to see the details, the structure, how refined, and just so unique the small ones are in God's creation.
What is one of my daily tasks is trying to support people who suffer from PTSD, but they suffer more in an emotional way, and I can understand them and listen to their story (digital) they trust me.
Renderosity: What projects are you currently working on?
Dochtersions: Of course I would love to take more concrete technical knowledge to me (to acquire), and follow tutorials, how to work with Ultra Fractal, Mandelbulb, etc.. The capabilities of PSP investigate and experiment with it.
The manual of my current camera (Canon PowerShot SX50HS, and as pocket camera Panasonic DMC-TZ35, since 2020 I use a Canon PowerShot SX70HS). I would like to sift through, and experiment with it. But exactly that kind of things, such as reading comprehension, concentration, makes this especially, by the constant dominating intense facial pain, really impossible.
All in all, I continue to look for improvement, while in the meantime trying to be light-hearted, happy and hopeful, to be open to everything that's coming my way. I enjoy art, stay in the nature, the outer man/woman in me, the love that I've been given, to realize this, and to be thankful for. Wherever I am happy with is that I am able to meet so many lovely people through RR. Unfortunately, only digital, but I'm also grateful.
Comments (13)
water
Very nice !
rhol_figament
Excellent details and colors, well done...
VDH
Een mooi, complex en origineel fractal werk ! Ontwerp en kleuren zijn fascinerend ! Super Mies !!
beachsidelegs
Wonderful image love the colours :)
prutzworks
met VDH eens
kepp
super image
farmerC
Exellent werk Mies.
Jammer dat het programma er niet meer is.
voske
Knap design en de kleuren zijn uitstekend.
Koala44
Very nice,
ia-du-lin
excellent creation
anahata.c
This is one of your complex, packed fractals that contains worlds inside of worlds. Yes, I can see a 'web' here. But I also see a brilliantly lit world behind an elaborate garden. The garden has long, sweeping "arms," with hands and many fingers...they look like long, exquisite bird wings. And they are a dark brown and green, and they look like protective arms, protecting the beautiful world behind them. Then, you have a beautifully lit world inside, with a opulent rock formations---like the Rock of Gibraltar. And a luminous green ridge, and many other 'riches' that we can only see in glimpses. And the edges of your image have many "peeks" into that inner world, with swirls and organic creatures everywhere. This is a deep, many-layered image, Jacomina, and it shows the depths and many layers of your soul. Some of your images are like the delicate Bach Inventions: But this is like a full chorus from one of his Passions: profound, and teeming with life. (And Jacomina: Thank you so much for your comments: You've written so much, and I'm very touched. I know it's not easy for you, especially in another language. You even made me laugh with your jokes ((and I remember you calling me a 'womanizer', in one of my selfies---my friends in Chicago would laugh wildly at that!)) And thank you for your kindness and understanding of my work. I appreciate all your comments, especially as I know it's hard for you to comment, not to mention comment that long. Many thanks. I hope you and Karel are having a splendid oktober and herfst!)
steve2
Beautiful Art .
Arodia
This is a pretty cool and nice fractal!