Was really happy I woke before sunrise and drove out to photograph this. This is my favorite sunrise photo. Took this with my Nikon D7200 with a 18-200mm and a cheap tripod.
If you shoot at very low shutter speeds or in the dark than bring along a tripod or monopod. General speaking VR isn’t all that useful for any lens below 100mm. Keep you shutter speed above 1/100 of a sec and your images will be sharp. If your hands tend to shake than keep your shutter speed above 1/1000 of a second. I use monopods and tripods almost every chance I get. And use VR on only my 300mm and up lenses.