John Young, the Rover and the LM Orion in brilliant up sun glare, 16-27 April 1972

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1972, numbered "NASA AS16-116-18578" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

This wonderful photograph is a frame from a panoramic sequence of Descartes Base and shows John Young working at the Rover.
The photograph shows a smudge pattern to the left of the LM because of lunar dust contacting the right center reseau plate of the camera for this frame and each subsequent frame of magazine 116/E.

“The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoiled. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it, and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just created the impression of excitement and wonder.”
Charles Duke (from the 2007 documentary In the Shadow of the Moon)

From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken:
165:54:58 Duke: (to Young) Okay. Go ahead. I’ll take a picture. (Pause) [...]
165:55:34 Duke: Here we are (at) sleepy little Descartes. (Pause)
165:55:46 Duke: Let’s see, that’s about plus-Z (strut). About (garbled) feet or so. [...]
165:56:13 Young: The big rock bag is on the Hand Tool Carrier (of the rover). And...(Pause)
165:56:30 Duke: Ah, the old U.S. flag. Looks colorful. (Pause)

Literature:
Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, ed., ppg. 18-19.