Landscape nature photograph, early morning after the first snow on Lidong, the winter-beginning solar term. A birch forest in fresh snow: white-barked birch trunks with black markings recede in layered rows into soft golden mist, low winter sunbeams cutting through the trees and throwing long blue shadows across the snow. Foreground of snow-dusted dry grass and a faint trail of animal footprints, a few snow-laden branches framing the top corner, one small red-breasted bird perched on a low branch as a touch of colour. Shot on a 24mm wide-angle lens, eye-level view, deep depth of field, warm gold light against cool blue-white snow, crisp bark texture and fine snow crystals, serene and vast, no text, no watermark, no people, no logo, 3:2 landscape composition.