MARQUETTE — Every year, the Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition – the UP’s oldest grassroots environmental organization – invites people to help us recognize and share the beauty of our landscape and its inhabitants by entering our Photo Contest. Send us your best shots representing the beautiful UP, including photos you may have on file from any season of the year.

There are five categories: Nature panoramas, wildlife, and landscapes; humans engaged with the natural world; close-ups of hidden or overlooked beauty; wonderful fluid water; and, new this year, “cabin fever cure” – images of you, family, and friends enjoying the UP outdoors in a Covid-responsible way (mask-wearing is a definite plus). Each category has latitude open to the photographer’s interpretation.

You can be from anywhere, but your photos must be of the Upper Peninsula. You may submit one photo in each of the five categories. To be considered, photos must be high-resolution (1 megabyte minimum; 6 megabytes maximum) photo in .jpg format. Winners will be announced in each category in January, and winning photos will be published in UPEC’s newsletter and also may be part of an on-line photo gallery and on display at our next Celebrate the U.P. event.