{"id":404690,"date":"2025-09-07T07:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404690\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:31:12","slug":"photographer-captures-incredible-shropshire-moonrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404690\/","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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stiperstone national nature reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.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":404691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,728,379,12,8972,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-404690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-south-shropshire","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115161850488372232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}