A tall vertical composition. A frozen alpine lake at night, seen from just above the clear black ice. Far beneath the ice lies a sunken Roman city whose windows and doorways still glow with warm lamplight: columned temples, tiled rooftops, and a long colonnade, visible through the dark ice. At the bottom of the frame, the ice surface carries frost patterns and the curving marks of skates. In the middle of the frame, a single skater, a woman in her thirties in a red wool coat and a white knitted hat, glides across the ice, looking down at the lights below her. At the top of the frame, snowy mountain peaks stand under a starry sky. A dark, cinematic photograph with sharp detail and rich texture, and the deep, glowing colors of lamplight seen through black ice.