Jon Rehg Photography

08/15/2021

I guess they're right; the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. My son Samuel shooting a meteor shower in Missouri farm country, between a soybean and corn field. We were kept company by a roaming pack of coyotes just down the road.

05/31/2021

05/08/2021

Everyday scene in the Country...

07/29/2020

This small, single-screen theater has been a fixture on Elsberry's main street since 1911. You should check it out sometime. The owners, "Cowboy," his wife and son, are friendly and inviting. Hometown, small town hospitality. Here's their page: https://www.facebook.com/Senate-Theatre-114663978635810/

07/21/2020

AMERICAN FLAG series...

With a little patience and luck, sometimes you find yourself in just the right place at just the right time.

07/04/2020

To those who BUILD America...and REBUILD, and REBUILD...no matter how many times it takes...

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06/26/2020

CAR series

"CALIFORNIA DREAMING"

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06/25/2020

YARD ART

Everyone's familiar with the big wooden playsets seen in suburban backyards everywhere. Our kids had a big one. I built it.

You typically don't see playsets in the city. Another place you don't see them is in the country.

An old delivery truck like this one is much more common a sight in the country.

At least the kids have a place to get out of the sun and cool off on hot summer days. And it's less conspicuous than a toilet with flowers in it.

06/21/2020

AMERICA photo series

America is not all quiet pastoral scenes. There is darker underbelly in which serious issues need to be addressed. I think as of late, we've all had our share of "serious," which is why I sometimes intentionally balance what is in the news with visuals that are not in the news. A visual yin and yang to keep our sanity.

One of my pet projects is documenting St. Louis architecture, both the beautiful and the ugly. A focus of mine for sometime has been the outrageous number of abandoned homes and businesses in the city of St. Louis. Over 25,000 have been categorized as "abandoned or vacant" by the city of St. Louis. But yet, very little is done about this problem.

I'm not sure why this is. I grew up in this town and have been in every square corner of it, and some of the things I see are straight out of post-WWII Berlin. I've taken visitors to parts of our city, both residential and industrial, where they cannot believe their eyes.

If we can promote a $52 million trolley-to-nowhere, but happens to run conveniently in front of , maybe a little of that money should have gone towards renting a wrecking ball or hiring rehab crews to address the shameful visual landscape in St. Louis that does not make the Visitor Bureau's brochure or website.

Periodically, I'll post some of these images that are a reminder that despite the tremendous strides local entrepreneurs are taking in rejuvenating our city, and I mean that sincerely, some great things are being done in this town to bring in new businesses, residents and visitors that are long over due, transforming it from the ghost town that it was in the '70s.

But these is still much work to be done.

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06/20/2020

AMERICA photo series

RED BARN & HAY BALE

This is from my America photography series. Pastoral color photograph on a summer day in the country of a red barn and hay bale. One of many quiet scenes that oftentimes go unnoticed by casual hurried travelers.

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06/18/2020

AMERICA photo series

With few exceptions, hardly an industry or business has not been bled by COVID in some way, to some extent. Stories circulate about the tremendous hit small businesses have taken, but large corporations typically grab the headlines with announcements about furloughs and layoffs in the hundreds and thousands. And understandably so. It's ugly everywhere.

Here's a business though from small town America that had apparently seen better days before COVID was even a dot on the radar or anyone had heard of Wuhan, China. Similar to how thousands of Americans had not heard of Pearl Harbor until December 7th, 1941. Now it's indelibly etched on our collective memory.

This business represents so many just like it, dotting the American landscape in both small towns and big cities. They've pretty much been forgotten and now exist mostly in memory or as a blur as travelers pass by without noticing.

Now they're just roadside oddities without purpose. But, that doesn't seem to be the case for this old woman, who spent the better part of a hot afternoon sweeping the dirt and sidewalk in front of this business in a small Missouri town.

For her, it still has value that reaches deeper than a faded memory.

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06/14/2020

AMERICA series

I must have had Andrew Wyeth's painting, Christina's World, rolling around in the back of my mind when I took this. Instead of Christina, the main subject is a hay bale. Christina was an actual person, crippled, and did drag herself along on the ground to get around the property.

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