Note: These are a set of slides bought from a company which duplicated them from NASA originals. Some 39 years later, they were scanned, but had detiorated badly. They have been adjusted, both during scanning and after, to try to restore the image quality. It's still not that great.
Wikipedia has a comprehensive article on Apollo 17.
This crater (which must be enormous) looks like a hurricane/cyclone eye picture here on earth. This photo would have been taken by Ronald Evans, the Command Module pilot left to orbit the moon for 3 days while his fellow astronauts explored below.
All packed and ready for blast off, the lunar lander looks rather lonely. There's an aerial view of this site taken by a lunar orbiter in 2009.
The lunar module approaching the command module before docking and the beginning of the return flight to earth.
The complementary view from the above - the command module seen from the approaching lunar module.
Earth rise! An impressive comparison of our planet and our moon; one lush, the other barren.
The moon has obviously absorbed many objects crashing into its surface, but without the forces on earth to change the surface appearance, it remains showing the damage.
Probably the final space walk of the mission - along side the command module on the return journey to earth.
The journey is over - astronauts safely in the rubber dinghy, and a battered capsule showing the effects of re-entry behind them.
On The Moon
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