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Canon 7D
Canon Lens 15-85mm

My lovely wife left me on my lonesome for a month last year (October) while she travelled to her homeland to introduce our baby son to her family and friends.

Thinking I’d have some nice long sleeps/sleep-ins I hadn’t planned on taking any sunrise photos. That is until I realised that without my son and wife here I couldn’t sleep properly and was waking up early anyway. So one morning I was lying awake at around 4am thinking, if I get up now I can be at Maroubra Beach before sunrise and fire off a few time-lapse shots. So I scrambled out of bed, threw on some clothes, grabbed the camera and the tripod and I was away. This is one of those shots from that morning just before the sun popped up over the horizon. Oh, and it was bloody cold that morning too!

The following information comes from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who, in 2003, received the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honour. The citation stated:

“ There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent. ”

The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. Currently, it is the most recently constructed World Heritage Site to be designated as such, sharing this distinction with such ancient landmarks as Stonehenge and the Giza Necropolis. It is one of the 20th century’s most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.

The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Contrary to its name, the building houses multiple performance venues. As one of the busiest performing arts centres in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people, the Sydney Opera House provides a venue for many performing arts companies including the four key resident companies Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony, and presents a wide range of productions on its own account. It is also one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, with more than seven million people visiting the site each year, 300,000 of whom take a guided tour.