4:20 PM

Behold St. Rose Church, located on Riverside Drive, somewhat upstream from downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. This church building, with its tall steeple, was a landmark for the riverboat captains of days long gone, so said Father Bill. However, this is St. Rose as seen from abroad, as Paul Dixon might have said, from way over on the opposing shore of the Ohio River in Dayton, Kentucky. Furthermore, things don't look exactly this way now, since this was taken at 4:20 PM in 1979 (or maybe 1980?) during a one-year project of documenting the facility and goings-on for Father William (Bill) Wintermeyer. At the time this image was taken, there was a small museum inside the church and, at the present, many of the photographs I took should be locked away somewhere inside the museum.  Well, perhaps only a few of them.  Two large trees, I would argue, have long since died and been swept downstream by floods that often soak the parking lot. The white stripe up the red brick, on the bottom right, has numerous markings that testify to the high-water marks of many floods that have bathed the church over time. As I recall, the goal of the project was documentation required to place the church on a register of historical places. This image was probably taken with a Nikon FM, Nikon 80-200 zoom, and, at the moment I cannot recall which slide film.  Most likely Ektachrome 125. It was, most likely, exposed in the afternoon, too. Probably around 4:20 PM.