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 (11)
MagikUnicorn
Sweeet
ladylake
Great photos.
nigh23
great bird and flowers i miss my birds
mifdesign
Superb photos, wonderful colours and details. I love it!
A_Sunbeam
Splendid!
VDH
Mooie bloemen, prachtige kleuren, leuke scene met dat vogeltje !!!
anahata.c
In the 2 photos of your front garden, I love how the background is deep and gray---it gives the photo a feeling of "floating in space".
Also, the tit's head is angled---like he or she is pecking at the flower to get a piece of real food. A spacious shot (the first shot is more cramped, because of your crop).
the back garden photo is in front of lots of greens (greenery), and it's more intense. Plus, the flower that the bird is holding is much "messier": Its stalk "spills downward," like someone spilled milk on the top, and it spilled down the stalk. A revealing and beautiful trio of shots.
Richardphotos
wonderful series of captures. you must being quiet taking the pictures. of course my dog Bodie must come right up to see what I am doing
dochtersions
Thank you Richard, yes I know that problem as you have with Bodie. When I am on the road in the fields on, for example, 'butterfly hunt', it happens that dogs, and passers-by come close to me to ask what I do. Well, 'hello', then my subject is gone. ;-)
Chatar
We don't have blue tits around here but I can't help but think they look and behave like larger black capped chickadees, which we have in abundance. One right now is busy trying to stuff a sunflower seed in the dead stalk of a tiger lily in my garden. They've even tried to stuff seeds in the lock of my door while hanging onto the door handle and I regularly find seeds in my outdoor shoes.
dochtersions
Thank you for sharing this very funny story, Chatar. I have never heard anything like that about a bird that does not eat the seeds, but is going to hide them. Maybe it keeps them, just as a squirrel does, to eat them later. I have looked up 'your' bird species, and indeed they look alike, it says black capped chickadees is a songbird, so free music, how nice is that, isn't it?
voske
Zo prachtig,fantastich foto's!!! Het is er aan te zien dat de beestjes gedresseerd zijn lol!!!
dochtersions
Haha, die Chris, je hebt het goed onthouden. Dankjewel voor je compliment, en weet je wat de dressuurtruc is?...: je moet net doen alsof je ze niet ziet. :)