Jan Bartelstone is a self-taught photographer with thousands of hours of darkroom experience. During college and for several years afterward, he traded fine art portraits for goods and services. Born on Long Island, New York, he emigrated to the Southwest in his early twenties and founded a successful fine art company. He began his career publishing a series of elegant fine art posters that sold throughout New Mexico and across the Southwest. In his early thirties, he received a grant from the Humanities Council to write, produce, and direct an hour-long docudrama that aired four times in prime-time slots — on the NBC affiliate in New Mexico and three times on PBS — reaching tens of thousands of viewers. An encounter with a renowned spiritual teacher from India would prove to be a defining influence, one that profoundly shaped the nature and aesthetic of his fine art images for decades to come. As his creative vision matured, he sold 100 large-scale works to national, regional, and local corporations, businesses, and destination resorts. His original photographs — the majority spanning six to eight feet — are held in the permanent collection at the state capitol in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work has been the subject of several published articles, and his 2009 photobook sold out of its first printing. His second documentary, Ecstatic Writers and Poets-Saints, premiered to a packed theater and was later featured on the national internet platform Culture Unplugged. He has also shown his work in a prestigious gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. The fine art prints offered here are of museum and exhibition quality — archival, limited edition, signed and numbered. The available sizes are suited to economical framing while remaining large enough to be fully appreciated. This online gallery presents his newer work, including images from his Ancient Window and his Starfield series. Each photograph in this collection was captured in a single shot, with no computer-generated imagery. What you see is what was there: presence, patience, and an eye trained to wait for the moment when the outer world reveals something of the inner one. The work draws on themes of oneness, the sacred in nature, and the quiet intelligence that moves beneath the surface of things.