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 (9)
VDH
Hello Mies, dit is een heel speciale fractlal, mijn fantasy is beperkt maar ik meen er dieren in te hebben ontdekt, maar sla niet op mijn kop als ik mis ben. De struktuur valt mij zeer op, evenals de kleurschakeringen. Ondanks deze slechte tijden wens ik je een mooi weekeind toe !!
lowheek
Good job
rhol_figament
Excellent image, luv the colors and the scale like pattern... 🐉
Glendaw
What a spectacular gold mind hidden inside this beautiful fractal.
The mix of golden colours and lighting are fabulous.
It really does look like a sandy beach filled with sunshine and treasures.
Great job Mies.
Brigitte will like this very much.
❤️💕❤️
Koala44
A very impressive fractal, truly magnificent.
prutzworks
knap werk, mooie dedicatie
iborg64
A beautiful creation stunning work
DreamersWish
Oh my goodness that is incredible looking! The textures look like a snail or water type critter. Sorry not sure how to explain. I do see little golden treasures too. Such a lovely gift!
blondeblurr
Hello, at last I am on line, here at RR... WOW, that took a while to find my way around. It's not like the old days anymore, but interesting, if you want to learn more ! A bit time-consuming, but it's worth persevering... LOL
Otherwise I would have missed this beauty, made by Jacomina, just for me. I must say, I feel very much honoured and very special. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, Jacominchen... to me, you are also very special ! About your artistic prowess, you are very clever indeed to be able to juggle FRACTAL !!! I simply wouldn't have any idea, where to start? We have a phenomena here on the East Coast of Australia, called the "spawning of the reef," when the time of the year and moon is right, it all comes together... When you sit on the beach and wait for the dark, you will see the glowing of the spawn rising to the top, illuminating the water's oceanfront. It's like no other event here on the beach waiting for it... But you can see it also on the TV news, hahaha... if you cannot make it to the beach, especially in the dark !!! Or by yourself, but it's magical !
Right, so to make a long story short, this reminds me of your special fractal art, my explanation anyway ! and it's perfect with your timing, you must have had telepathic thoughts there, believe it, or not. Well done, my dear friend and thanks once more for thinking of me. BTW - it works, vice versa !