Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson recently visited the newly renovated Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., which had been closed for about 18 months. Home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s craft and decorative arts program, Renwick is located across from the White House at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in downtown Washington, D.C. The renovation has carefully restored …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson captured these images recently at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va., where he was taking some training classes. The NCTC offers a unique and diverse range of conservation training courses, designed by and for the conservation professional. Topics range from coldwater fish culture to habitat conservation planning, from environmental negotiation to building community support for natural …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson offers a glimpse of our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., in the last month of the year.
These idyllic scenes of rural Maryland caught the eye of Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson on Saturday.
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson was on the road recently, his travels taking hime to Oregon, specifically the Ashland and Medford areas, including the Lower Table Rock Trail northeast of Medford.
Travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park with photographer Jeff Olson. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The border between North Carolina and Tennessee runs northeast to southwest through the centerline of the park. It is the most visited national park in …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson recently had the opportunity to visit one of the top tourist attractions in Ashville, N.C., the Biltmore Estate. Biltmore House, the main house on the estate, is a Chateauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895. It is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 square feet of floor space …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson captured these scenic shots at Chimney Rock State Park, which is located in Chimney Rock Village near Lake Lure in the North Carolina mountains. Privately owned by the Morse family for more than 100 years, Chimney Rock was acquired by the state of North Carolina in 2007 to become part of the greater Chimney Rock State …
A hike along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and to the Paw Paw Tunnel near Oldtown, Maryland was on the agenda recently for Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson and his wife, Joanne Plager Burke Olson. The C&O Canal, occasionally called the “Grand Old Ditch,”operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Md. The canal’s principal cargo …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olsons shares these shots of Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, located in Baltimore. The coastal star-shaped fort is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British Navy in Chesapeake Bay in 1814. During the Civil War, the area where Fort McHenry sits served as a military prison, …
Who says summer is gone? Certainly not the flowers in the back yard of Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson.
Versailles and the Palace de Versailles were on the agenda for Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson on his last full day in France.
The Château de Chenonceau is one of the best-known chateaux of the Loire Valley in France, and that is where Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson’s travels took him Wednesday. Located near the small village of Chenonceaux in the Indre-et-Loire department, the chateau was first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. The current château was built in 1514–1522 on the …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson’s most recent day touring the French countryside included visiting Font-de-Gaume, a cave near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne department of southwest France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome paintings and engravings dating to the Magdalenian period. His day ended at Château de Beynac, a castle where Richard the Lionheart lived in the 12th century. The castle is one of the …
The Tuesday market in Le Bugue — that’s where Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson, his wife, Joanne Plager Burke Olson, and their other traveling companions spent their morning. Le Bugue, located on the banks of the Vézère River a few kilometers before the confluence of the Vézère with the Dordogne at Limeuil, is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. …
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson captured these scenes in Salers, a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France, on his recent trip.
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson and his traveling companions, including his wife, Joanne Barclay Burke Plager, and Dean Plager and Barclay Jackson, has an “incredible day and tea in Salers, a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. It is famous for the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée cheeses Cantal and Salers. It is also famous for the Salers breed of cattle …
On his recent European trip to France, Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson ended his boat travel in Mâcon, a small city in east-central France in the department of Saône-et-Loire, located in Burgundy. From there, he and his group headed west by automobile to Massif Central, an elevated region in south-central France, consisting of mountains and plateau with numerous castles and parks. Their …
The recent travels of Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson and his wife, Joanne Plager Burke Olson, took them to the commune of Port-de-Vaux in Ain department in eastern France, where hungry swans and ducks were their marina neighbors.
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson’s travels in France on Sunday and Monday took him through 14 locks from Saint-Leger-sur-Dheune to Chegny and then to Fragnes, all located in in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne.
Scenes from Le Crest, Chateau De la Verrerie in La Creusot and Saint-Léger-sur-Dheune in France caught the eye of Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson during his recent trip.
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson captured these images from Paris recently. Among them are shots from Notre-Dame-de-Paris, also known as Notre Dame Cathedral; the Latin Quarter; The Sainte-Chapelle, a royal medieval Gothic chapel, located near the Palais de la Cité, on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris; and the Eiffel Tower.
Jeff Olson snapped these photos Saturday night at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Alexandria, Va., photographer and his wife, Joanne Plager Burke Olson, joined thousands of other people who also were enjoying the nice evening in our nation’s capital.
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff captured these images Friday night (July 31) in our nation’s capital from the Netherlands Carillon. The blue moon in four of the photos was the first in about three years, and here it shows off a couple of different colors.
Here are a few spectacular photos from Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson’s recent trip home to North Dakota. They are a canola field near northeast of McKenzie,N.D., two of a Missouri River sunset through the smoky skies north of Double Ditch Indian Village, the result of Canadian forest fires, and a yellowheaded-blackbird in cattail slough northeast of McKenzie.
Alexandria, Va., photographer Jeff Olson returned to his home state of North Dakota recently and captured these shots in the capital city Bismarck.
Here are some photos taken Thursday morning at the Alexandria City Marina By Old Town of the French frigate Hermoine, a replica of the tall ship that brought Gen. Marquis de Lafayette from France to America in 1780. The stop is part of a 12-city tour along the East Coast that includes public tours of the ship and traveling exhibit.
A few scenes on Memorial Day from New York City.
B-17 bombers, Stearman biplanes, Hellcats, B-24s and many more vintage aircraft took part Friday in the Arsenal of Democracy flyover of Washington, D.C., which marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Up to 5,000 people watched from on or near the National Mall, with thousands more on downtown rooftops.
It’s amazing what a little rain will do for spring flowers such as these in Alexandria, Va.
On Earth Day, President Obama visited Everglades National Park. The president used the opportunity to talk about how climate change is affecting the 1.4 million acre park, which was created in 1947 to conserve the natural landscape and prevent further degradation of its land, plants, and animals. Known as the “River of Grass,” the Everglades fuel the region’s tourism economy and water …
Sunset tulips grace the George Washington Parkway overlook between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 150 years ago today April 9 was a milestone event in the end of the Civil War. Among the anniversary events to commemorate the event were a re-enactment of Lee’s last clash with Grant’s troops and of the Confederate surrender in the McLean Virginia farmhouse. Also …
The National Cherry Blossom Festival concludes today. For 80 years, Washington, D.C., has celebrated the 1912 gift of cherry trees to our nation’s capital by the mayor of Toyko. Each year, big crowds gather around the Tidal Basin and National Mall to view the springtime magic of the blooming cherry trees. This weekend, Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are hitting peak bloom, according to …
The National Cherry Blossom Festival concludes today. For 80 years, Washington, D.C., has celebrated the 1912 gift of cherry trees to our nation’s capital by the mayor of Toyko. Each year, big crowds gather around the Tidal Basin and National Mall to view the springtime magic of the blooming cherry trees. This weekend, Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are hitting peak bloom, according to …
The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 150 years ago today was a milestone event in the end of the Civil War. Among the anniversary events to commemorate the event were a re-enactment of Lee’s last clash with Grant’s troops and of the Confederate surrender in the McLean Virginia farmhouse on April 9, …
Some scenes at Rawlins Park, across from the U.S. Department of the Interior, in Washington, D.C.
Henry Varnum Poor’s “American Conservation of the Wilderness” (1937) gets some cleaning and restoration work at the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C.
Birds, boats and beautiful sunrises and sunsets are a common spring sight in Florida.
The weekend sun doesn’t look much different at sunrise at The Beach at Fort Meyers or at sunset from a dock at Key West, Fla., in these shots from photographer Jeff Olson of Alexandria, Va.
It looks like spring has sprung in northern Virginia. These crocuses showed themselves Friday at Downtown Del Ray, Alexandria, Va.
It doesn’t matter how much snow is on the ground in northern Virginia because when these guys show up and start singing — and courting the ladies — spring is not too far behind.
The sun melts ice covering the leaves on a magnolia tree this morning in the neighborhood of Del Ray in Alexandria, Va.