On: Is this plane landing or departing?

[ppod]

The gear aren't in the process of being retracted in that photo, they have that backward tilt on landing too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ba_b747-400_g-civx_mainge...

Gear are retracted once a positive rate of climb has been achieved, but not that early.

[coredog64 → ppod]

To add to your comment, the FO watches the speed tape and VSI and calls out events to the captain (V1, V2, rotate, positive rate-gear up).

I looked around on Youtube for some good examples, and this was the best I could find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wjoF8-Oaew

The captain keeps a hand on the throttles until V1, and then it is several seconds after takeoff that FO retracts the gear.