Jim Schlett's interest in photography began with a graduation gift of a Polaroid camera from grade school in New Jersey. He later obtained an AA degree in Photography and Art. In 2011, after working for the US Postal Service as an Executive for over 30 years in Washington D.C., he “refocused” on his love for the National Parks and photography. He is a long-standing member of the Reston Photographic Society (RPS) and the former President of the League of Reston Artists (LRA) (2012-17). Jim has a great love of travel and his photographs include many images of our national parks, (having visited over 140 National Park sites), cityscapes and nature in nearly all fifty states.
I have been very fortunate to be selected as one of the Artist-In-Residents at 4 National Park sites in 2018. I will be starting the one at Gettysburg Military Park this Wednesday, Augustr 15 for 4 weeks. I will be tentatively giving a talk and presentation in early September at the Visitors Center. This park has long been one of my favorite National Park sites and I even did my high school history term paper on the battle. Feel free to follow me at
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I will also be displaying some of these images at the ArtSpace Gallery in Herndon later this year.
