This year I created 3 calendars. The fourth I made last year. Of course you don't have to buy them: just enjoy


[link] to everything there is a season


[link] once upon a time


[link] dancing fractals




[link] journey through time




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Please read my article about art theft...: [link]







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I thought it would be nice to gather the special gifts for me. They all have a special meaning for me.
Thanks again, my friends (if I have missed one: please let me know!)

Fridaymorning I looked out of my kitchenroom and oh.....

We live in a rural area. Lots of space and trees. The space was white. The trees white and dark. Horses dark. Beautful pastels in the sky. A breathtaking sight.

I wish I could share the images I saw with my eyes... But the best thing I can do, is giving you a link to weather photos of that day (9 januari). It gives you a good impression. [link]
All people in the Netherlands know what I am talking about.

We had to go that morning to another village with the car. Every turn of the raod we had another view. Wow.
I said to my husband. This kind of beauty is not necesary for survival (survival of the fittest). Everything was covered with an enchanting beauty. Roofs. Trees. Cars. Broken fences. Industrial things... No, he said, this is extra.

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HOPE
BELIEF
LOVE


... often people wish each other health, and they usually mean physical health... and yes, physical health is very important. But I learned that mental health is even more important... I am an invalid for almost 26 year (due to an illness) and have seriously cancer for 4 year (...but I still live...) I have only a very faint recollection of how it is to be physical healthy.

Hope, belief and love gives me mental health and makes me happy and gives me peace.

I wish you this happiness too!

Thanks for your support in the past year and for all the beauty you created for all to enjoy.
And thanks to my Father for my hope, belief and love!

love,
Titia


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My first calendar

It took me some time to figure out how the calendar upload works, but finally I succeeded...I think...

Take a look at: [link]

(Don't shoot me for having this view...)

Our Creator didn't use a fractalprogram to create clouds, trees, flowers, snowflakes...
You can also draw a fractal with a pencil, you can create a fractal with a lot materials.
3D [link] or 2D [link] .

Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of what we know as fractals, meant by fractals:
A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." (Wikipedia)

Let's restrict fractals to the products of fractalprograms...
Are all products of a fractalprogram fractal ?
Several say: yes. Several say: no.
Is layering a fractalproperty ?
It is in my opinion only the possibility in some fractalprograms to create a nice image with several fractals, but the result is not ONE fractal, but several fractals, blended into one. FractalArt.

Why is this possibility not in all fractalprograms ? Sterlingware is an excellent fractalprogram, but there is no layering function. Stephen Ferguson is very capable of adding this function.
Fractal Explorer has a layering function, but I can insert any image in the fractal with that. Of course: also another fractal, but it still will be a blend of two fractals.
Bringitin is a program to convert any image to a coloralgoritm you can use in Ultra Fractal. In that way you also can insert any image in the fractal. Even in a one layered fractal.

Where do you draw the line ?

You don't need a fractalprogram to create a fractal and not all the products of a fractalprogram are fractals.

There are heated discussions about this. I don't see why. It is not a matter of who is right. We want to have fun with it. Right ?