Frozen Lightning Over Hoarfrost Forest at Midnight

Silvery winter light bathes a deciduous forest where every twig wears a thick, crystalline coat of hoarfrost. The ground lies under a shallow blanket of light fog that softens the base of the trunks while the branches remain sharply defined against the sky. Above, a dramatic night sky features a single bolt of lightning frozen in mid-strike, its jagged white veins branching across the darkness with impossible clarity. The frozen electrical discharge illuminates the frost textures, revealing the intricate geometry of ice on bark. Dark cloud bands streak horizontally above the tree line, their motion halted to match the stillness of the frozen storm. A reflection of the lightning's edge glows faintly on a wet patch of moss near the foreground.