The World's Most Famous Photo

Only my good friend and next door neighbor for 20 years, Bob Jacobs answered last week's question of 'the world's most famous photo. I always knew---Jake was meant for greater things!

And the answer is and the photographer was William Anders:

“A grand oasis in the vastness of space.” Spoken by James Lovell, command module pilot of Apollo 8, when his crew photographed Earth's Most Famous Photo. Photographed on December 24, 1968 at 10:30am. Photographed with a Hasselblad Camera using a 150mm lens.

The word 'earthrise' was coined by the Apollo 8 crew for this event. And that, my friends is just how  new words are made. Earthrise is the name given to a photograph of the Earth that was taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer Galen Rowell declared it "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken."^[1] This had been preceded by the crude 1966 black & white raster earthrise image taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic probe.

 

The Untold Story Of The World's Most Famous Photo   be certain to double 

click the underlined words to see a terrific video.

 

 

My friends, Gordon Brown and Bob Shanebrook you two are right.  “f/16 rule--- this exposure was 250/f11 on Kodak Ectachrome 100 Transparency film. 

 

In 1969 I bought 'Earthrise' and it hung in my office until I sold the studio in 1985, little knowing it was to become the world's most famous photo.  I also bought the following NASA images and prepared a slide show  that I gave about 15 programs to church groups, Rotary, and school groups. Meisel Photochrome Corporation was the official processor of NASA film and transparencies. I had a program that gave earth to moon distance, circumference of the moon and circumference of the earth, and many other statistics. (Please don't tell you Kodak TSR that these Ektachrome images  don't last as long as your Kodachrome images do.) 

 

DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE CREW USED THIS SEXTANT.