The wakeup call was well before sunrise. The arrival time was not long after wakeup.

The assignment was a series of photos of a fitness athlete doing warmups at sunrise, then follow her for the day for training and meals.

For anyone show shoots at sunrise you know the planning is precise. The sun is in the right position for a very short period of time before it loses its warmth or the angle is too high.

To capitalize on the early arrival we began the shoot before sunrise. In our case sunrise was a little later than normal because the sun had to break across a line of trees across the lake where we were shooting.