A Bishop's Castle photographer's breathtaking photos show a man balancing on a 40ft rock while perfectly silhouetted by a stunning supermoon as it rose over an ancient ridge in the Shropshire Hills.

Photographer Andrew Fusek Peters captured the dramatic scene as the moon reached one of its closest points to the Earth on Monday evening (April 26).

He stood half a mile away to snap his friend clambering over Devil's Chair in the Stiperstones National Nature Reserve as the huge supermoon loomed behind him.

The pink supermoon appeared about 14 per cent bigger in the sky and about 30 per cent brighter as it neared the closest point in its orbit of the Earth.

Andrew, 55, of Lydbury North, Shrops., said: "These feel like once in a lifetime shots.

“To get everything in the right place at the right time with the right weather conditions was very lucky.

County Times: Man in the moon at Needle's Eye, Devil's Chair, Stiperstones, Shropshire. April 26 2021. See SWNS story SWMDmoon.

"You also have to work out where the moon is going to be and find a willing volunteer to stand on a sheer precipice with a 40ft drop each side

“I was in phone contact with my friend Jim. He’d got up there with 40 minutes to spare before the moon rose at 8.30pm.

“We were waiting and waiting for it to come up and I was worried because it was a bit hazy.

“When it did I realised I was in the wrong place and had to run through gorse, shrub, heather and all sorts of horrible stuff to get into the right spot.

“They are so incredible they look fake but they are not. It literally looks like my friend is standing in the moon.

“He was a bit nervous about going up there on his own but was very willing and brave."

The hills themselves are home to many myths - witches are said to meet there on the shortest night of the year to elect their leader.

Andrew added: "It’s made of ancient quartz type rock, which shattered and broke into different shapes due to the glaciers, and that’s how the Devil’s Chair came to be there.

“It’s a spooky place and a strange place to be.

“According to local myth, if you bring your ill child through the cleft they will be cured of all their illnesses.

“And that it was formed by the devil himself. He didn’t like the people of Shrewsbury, so he was going to drop stones from his apron in to the river Severn to drown them.

“But someone cut a hole in his apron and the rocks slipped out onto the rock.

“When it’s cloudy up there people say the devil’s up there smoking his pipe.”