Edinburgh Hogmanay Torch March

Use the uploaded image strictly for face and identity reference — preserve exact facial features, hairstyle, skin tone, and proportions without any modification. Create a super ultra-HD 8K hyper-realistic festival portrait of a woman walking in Edinburgh's Hogmanay torchlight procession on New Year's Eve — thousands of people marching through the ancient medieval Old Town carrying flaming torches up toward Calton Hill. She is near the front of the procession, torch held high, face turned slightly sideways as she walks, caught in a moment of looking at the river of fire stretching behind her down the Royal Mile. Her torch: a thick handle wrapped in black grip tape, the flaming head a dense ball of burning rags soaked in paraffin — the flame rendering at full physical accuracy, the specific orange-white of paraffin fire, the black smoke rising from the dense fuel source, the wire cage holding the burning material visible through the flame. She wears a heavy wool tartan scarf in dark greens and blues against the January Edinburgh cold, her breath just visible as a faint vapor in the torch-warmed air. Her cheeks are flushed from cold and firelight. Her expression is one of collective joy — the specific feeling of being part of something ten thousand people strong. Behind her down the hill: the procession is a river of individual torchlight stretching back into the dark city, the medieval buildings on either side of the Royal Mile lit in their warm orange glow, the castle visible on its volcanic rock at the procession's origin. The sky above is deep winter black with the orange dome of the city's light pollution. Every tartan wool fiber, every torch flame detail, every torch in the procession behind her individually lit — microscopic sharp detail. 85mm portrait lens, f/1.8 aperture, shallow depth of field, DSLR quality, photorealistic skin and fire texture, deep winter night torchlight cinematic color grading. Aspect ratio 4:5.