Earth Rising

Earth Rising, a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

I was thinking about Earth Day tonight when I made this image with the Brushes app on my iPhone. This little fantasy of earth rising is inspired by photos of the earth seen from space. From an Apollo mission in the 1970s, we got our first view of the earth from space and saw it as a'big blue marble'. Thanks to the NASA, we saw beautiful pictures of earth taken from the surface of the moon. But as beautiful as these images are, seeing the Earth rise from another planet is not the view I would wish for future generations. The best views of Earth are the close-ups.