This shot was made about 5 minutes before the PAD posted yesterday (from a slightly different vantage point). It's barely light but the pre-sunrise color show has already started. It's amazing to see how quickly the colors can change. You could shoot once a minute from start to end and have 30 different images. The colors tend to start at the saturated red end and then soften to a mixture of red to orange to gold before fading entirely just about at sunrise.
You can see the change by comparing this PAD with yesterday's which has begun the shift to the mixed red/orange colors - http://www.pbase.com/image/87462815 - and with the image taken when the sun finally showed itself - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/87463414 - by which time most of the color is gone. All three images were made from different vantage points - the sunrise version from a different pond a few hundred yards east of the original (it gets me closer to the hill and delays the moment when the sun is actually visible).
Get there for the start of the show; shoot frequently throughout; pick your favorites. You won't be disappointed (unless, like today, the sky is covered with a heavy overcast which hopefully will finally break our area's record setting 34 days without rain).
Some non-obvious gear to get this type of shot: an alarm clock, waterproof boots, and a machete to hack away some cattails to get close to (in) the water (joking about the machete but getting close is a problem).