I love this photo.

On March 9 I wrote: I wish I knew its origin so I could give it proper attribution and link to the right place on the Web for it. But that's true for most of the photos I find on Facebook.

On May 5, Louise responded (below): Adam, it is by amateur astronomer, now photographer Laurent Laveder http://www.laurentlaveder.com/

With that information I found this NPR story about this photo set.

Specifically, it's a pet project called Moon Games.

Says Claire O'Neill of NPR:

The charm of the captions is somewhat lost in translation, but they are playful like a children's book; the whole thing actually reminds me of The Little Prince, who lived on an asteroid moon.

I added this photo to my Posterous page, The 12 Laws of Karma.

Found on Imgur, too.

Adam, it is by amateur astronomer, now photographer Laurent Laveder http://www.laurentlaveder.com/ .. and yes, I thoroughly agree with you there re proper attribution ... (being a photographer myself :)) ... we are working on a fix for that with our new start up :)

Louise, THANK YOU!

That was really eating at me.

I look forward to your startup's fix.

I shared this photo on Facebook last night.

Since then it has gotten 600 likes and 600 shares.

Wow.

I wish I could find more photos that have that kind of love!!

wow ! ... I love to hear that the artists are geting their due credit :) Funny actually - I gained 20 or so new followers last night- all of which were photographers ! and I could not figure out why ... :)

I'm guessing sharing that photo is why.

So now the question is how can I find more amazing photos like that one?

yep - sure was. have you tried 500PX ? http://500px.com/ lots of BIG moon pics on there at the mo http://500px.com/photo/7341910

That is a great image, and I had never seen 500px before.

Right now my image places to peruse are Imgur and Bored Panda: http://pandawhale.com/convo/1118/creative-dad-takes-crazy-photos-of-daughters-via-bored-panda

These images have been circulating the Internet for years...

[Some of Laurent's images from 2008.]

There are many more variations on this theme, among them:

1. Quick! Hand me that moon!!

2. Playing with the eclipse.

Moon in my coffee: http://pandawhale.com/convo/1818/moon-in-my-coffee

Holding up the moon: http://pandawhale.com/convo/5054/holding-up-the-moon

9gag has a full moon set without the playful people that is nonetheless very cool: http://9gag.com/gag/4107659

Moon over Sequoia National Park is spectacular.