After making it out of Hillsville, and onto an open two lane highway, things were going well and I was on time to make it to Rocky Knob to catch the sun breaking the horizon.
The fog was thick, thick enough to make it so my reaction time was longer than the distance I could see at the speed I was going(basically if a deer popped out it's 'goodbye')
About 3 miles from the top of the knob, I noticed the moon very graciously setting over nice rows of trees and fog. I stopped the car and started taking some shots handheld with the Pentax K20d and an old Sears 135mm 2.8. The crop factor of this camera body and the length and superb sharpness of this old lens make for a nice combo when shooting telephoto landscapes. To get the composition below, I ended up sprinting down the parkway to get into a better position. I am glad I spent the time to stop and shoot this moonset, because the lens of the Sears 135mm struggles with flare when shooting into the sun, so my results were going to be better in a lower dynamic range/no flare situation.
The cool part about this is that, when I composed the moon photo, I actually couldn't make out what was in the foreground fog... turns out that an old run down building sits there(lucky me:)
