On a clear November morning, Steve Buchanan packed his gear and set out on a photo expedition to the Wye Island Natural Resources Management Area in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. The Eastern Shore photographer trained his Sony camera, equipped with a 15mm Voigtländer lens, on Granary Creek as day broke and reflections of billowing clouds danced on the surface of the water. The protected waterfowl habitat, notes Buchanan, is not only a flight path for migratory ducks and geese, but also “one of my family’s regular hiking spots,” he explains. “I know this creek well and could tell it would be spectacular at sunrise.”