{"id":120334,"date":"2025-09-07T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120334\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:40:08","slug":"photographer-captures-incredible-shropshire-moonrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120334\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer captures incredible Shropshire moonrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Fusek Peters managed to time his pictures as the Moon rose over a famous local rock formation in South Shropshire last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s always so exciting to be in the right place and right time, last night around 8pm, to get the moon rise over the iconic Manstone Rock at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk\/site\/stiperstones-national-nature-reserve-nnr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stiperstone national nature reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/47f025dc-a1a5-4c34-8a54-58123e479005.jpg\"   alt=\"Incredible view of a Shropshire moonrise by Andrew Fusek Peters \" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Incredible view of a Shropshire moonrise (Andrew Fusek Peters \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These quartzite rock formations are some of the oldest in the world at 480 million years old, and then shattered into these incredible outcrops in the last ice age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I plan my pictures using the Photographer&#8217;s Ephemeris which tells me where to be &#8211; about half a mile north east on the slopes of the Stiperstones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get both moon and rocks together is so exciting and spiritual as by that time of night I am completely alone up there except for the odd raven.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Fusek Peters managed to time his pictures as the Moon rose over a famous local rock formation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,1397,2652,50,34661,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-120334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-local-hubs","tag-news","tag-south-shropshire","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}