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My name is Maria Helena Stanke and 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?
Selected works
Portfolio news
Oct 28
The post that should have been “More autumn – Part 2″ became a post with an animal theme instead. Here is a mix of what runs, crawls and flies around my home.
I chased the blackbird with the camera for days before I got a good shot. It’s a very shy bird and I tried to catch one (not sure if it’s the same bird) on camera with the red berries already last year and failed. But not this time!
The cats tagged along this time too (because they are too lovely to not take pictures of). 
The picture of Gizmo is the first one I’ve uploaded that is shot inside the house in the photo category. It’s always harder to get a nice picture of Gizmo than the other two. He is the clown in the group and he feels much more at ease fooling around than posing before the camera.
The little grass snake has to be mentioned too because it’s a bit exotic. It’s very seldom that I find snakes around the house. Poisonous or not – I can tell you that the pulse picks up speed when a snake hisses at you, even if it’s a small snake. 
Oct 22
My “Skyscapes” are starting to become a small series of images. Lovely sunsets are like nature’s own firework. So exciting to watch. 
Oct 16
This time of year a lot of autumn photos of colorful leaves pour out on the Internet kind of like images of flowering cherry trees flow out of Japan in the spring. Therefor I thought I woudln’t upload any colorful trees (eventhough a red leaf snuck into the bunch), but shar some other things that are also part of autumn. 