Just as I remembered that I didn’t have a photo for this morning, I glanced up from my monitor and saw this. Wow. I ran for my camera, took this shot, sat down, looked up and it was gone. Cardinal rule for photographers is to take the shot when you see it because it won’t wait for you!

TIP: For a successful shot, make sure the edge of your sunrise or sunset silhouettes are sharp. A fuzzy silhouette can ruin a beautiful sunrise. Ideally, you should manually focus but if your camera doesn’t have manual focus, here’s a tip that may work for you. Position the camera’s focus point halfway on the edge of the subject and halfway on the sky. If you have face detection on, make sure one of the squares picks up the edge of your subject. Now press the shutter half way to focus (don’t let go). If it did focus on the edge of your subject, then recompose to include more of the beautiful sky and press the shutter completely down. Check the result on your screen. If the resulting image is too dark, turn your exposure compensation dial up one notch and repeat the previous steps. Of course it the image is too light, turn the compensation dial one or two notches down and repeat. Compact cameras have a tendency to make silhouettes too light, so you are more likely to turn the compensation to the minus side.

Check out YouTube for some excellent video tutorials on this subject. Here’s a link to search results.
(TIP: you’re usually safe clicking on the ones with a high star rating)