Julie McKay Covert is a published author, photographer, therapist and teacher. Her passion for nature is seen in her photographs and expressed in her writing. She lives with her husband in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the shores of Lake Huron where she fell in love with winter. They live off-the-grid using solar energy for electricity and wood and propane for heating and cooking.

When Julie Covert began studying photography 15 years ago, she used it as an excuse to go for a hike or spend a leisurely day at a botanical garden. She found photography was her creative way to express her love for nature.

Eventually, there came a point in her life when she had to decide whether she would do photography full time or go into massage therapy. Julie's photography teachers told her, "Julie, you have what it takes to do photography professionally. However, if you want to continue enjoying photography don't do it for a living." She chose to go into massage to make her living, which paid for her photographic pursuits. In the last few years photography again became more center stage in her life.

Covert aims to capture what others might look past and not notice. She focuses on nature, macro and landscape photography with winter as her favorite season to explore. She carries a camera where ever she goes as she never knows when the next great image will present itself.

Under the publishing name, Whitehead Press, she published in 2012 a full-color professionally designed and printed coffee table book of her winter images. It is entitled Art of Winter: A Photographic Essay and shows the beauty that winter creates with snow and ice. This book shows her love of winter through the lens of her camera - in this way she gets to share with others two of her passions - photography and winter.