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)
Je doet het weer ! stik jaloers op jullie prachtige voortuin!
Dankjewel, Chris! En ja, ik zie echt een jaloerse blik in de ogen van jouw avatar poes, lol.
Very beautiful!
Thank you very much.
Super !
Thank you very much.
Beautiful!
Thank you very much.
Impressive wisteria. I sowed one. Don't know if I will see flowers some day
Thank you, illkirch. Long ago I saw a seed in this wisteria, and I sowed it. We didn't think it would work, but now we have a second wisteria in the back of our garden. I'll post the photo of this one too. Good luck with yours, illkirch! :)
This view is amazing and beautiful.
Thank you so much, Herwig!
I probably commented on these privately, but it can't hurt to say more here...
Your home---especially in spring---looks like it's right out of a beautiful fairy tale. (The Grimms', for instance.) Beautiful bushes, flowers, lush greens, beautiful short trees in front...and that wysteria is like a lush scarf draped over the front door and windows. This is probably a very "stereotyped" thing to say, but this is how I pictured Germanic and Dutch homes, when I was a kid: Intimate, warm, inviting, and surrounded by lush green and beautiful flowers. (And are the Netherlands truly the tulip capital of the world? Or is that just a myth? You posted a garden, a few posts early, with lots of tulips. The rest of the world certainly thinks of "tulip" when they think of your beautiful country.)
And the shot of you---I had to look for a minute before I saw you! You blend right in! Your door has some similar colors in it (from the sun)---for a minute I thought that was your twin! Your front yard is a beautiful intimate space. I always love to see your home and surrounding area. It's gorgeous, which you deserve. At least nature is giving you lush surroundings, as you deal with nature's great challenges. (Challenges you don't deserve!) A beautiful pair of shots...what a joy to walk out to, each day...
Thank you for your kind words. What I thought was funny, was that you call it a fairytale house. My father-in-law said this too. Karel's father was a great friend to me, but unfortunately he died much too early.
I love your words comparing the wisteria to a scarf. Our house is an exception in our area. Nowadays the houses are usually sleek with flat roofs, like building blocks. Yes, and there are many passers-by who photograph our house, or ask if they can buy it. I sometimes say: "yes, that's good". Lol, but Karel doesn't want this, he would miss his garden too much, but our house is so big and old it requires so much maintenance.
Anyway, we work a lot in the garden, which is really necessary. But I really enjoy seeing different flowers blooming again and again. And it's a place where I always go hunting with my camera, I love insects they are so interesting.
I'll post a few more photos soon that are more recent. Oh, and about tulips, indeed in the north-west of the Netherlands there are very large tulip fields in all kinds of colors.
If you are in the area, dear friend, you are more than welcome, plus you can play Bach on Karel's organ, haha, if you dare.;-)