My name is Maria Helena Stanke and I’m studying digital media at University West. I’m a Photoshop artist, web designer, photographer and writer with a fondness for fantasy.
This is my growing portfolio where bright colours and darkness live in harmony with Mother Nature. I believe complexity and contrasts make life a little more exciting and interesting, don’t you agree?
And sure the Internet is flooded with pictures of roses, but I don’t really care. 
This rose was really special. So many petals and such intense color.
I just have to share it with the world. 
I’d forgotten I’d taken this picture so finding it again was bit of a treat to myself. 
I simply love the colors of autumn. I remember now that it was very cold when I took this picture. A few days later everything was frozen, I think. 
I also took some other photos on that day. One of them need to shake hands with Photoshop and some magic before it’s done so I don’t know when it’ll show up in the portfolio. Same colors though.
Aww, I like! 
A while back I did these bookmarks for Catahya. They’re meant to represent different genres that falls beneath the Catahya raven’s wings of protection. 
First out is a classical fairytale theme with briars. Then we have the spooky horror bookmark followed by a raven in the snow that doesn’t have a genre really, but lampposts in the snow is very much Narnia to me so maybe it can be the average fantasy mark. 
The forth bookmark is set out in space and represents sci-fi. No questions there, I’m sure. And then the last one which is a steampunk mark. I don’t really know if it’s a big genre or not, but I really wanted to make something steampunkish. 
Catahya will use the bookmarks as marketing and a bunch have already ended up in libraries here and there in the country. That’s neat.
Here’s a photo of how they look in real life:
