Robert Winkler

Robert Winkler is an author and editor, a photographer, and a naturalist living in the Shepaug-Bantam River Valley of Washington, CT, a small town in the Litchfield Hills. Raised in Queens, NY, he settled in Connecticut after attending Clark University, where he majored in English and philosophy.

He began his career writing training films and videos for the military and businesses, while contributing photography articles and nature essays to The New York Times and others. For Travel and Leisure magazine, he was The Traveling Photographer columnist.

With over 40 years of field experience as a naturalist, Winkler has been a consulting writer for International Masters (a publisher of wildlife natural histories), and he contributed to Connecticut ornithology with his Checklist: Birds of Sherwood Island State Park.

In 2003, he wrote Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness, National Geographic's first literary book on birds. For his entire career, he has kept a hand in the business world, most recently as a consulting editor to an IT research firm.

Winkler moved to Washington in 2011, naming his home Chipmunk Hollow, where he has taken many of the photos on his website, Robert Winkler Photography. His specialties are wildlife, landscapes, nature close-ups, and documentary photography. He signed with Getty Images in 2020 as an exclusive photography contributor.

His photo credits include The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, NBC News, Fox News, New York Post, Yahoo News, BuzzFeed, Hunker, Time, People, National Geographic News, Reader’s Digest, Parade, Martha Stewart, Elle, Country Living, Southern Living, Travel & Leisure, Birds & Blooms, CT Insider, Connecticut Public Television, Connecticut Magazine, Hallmark Calendars, trade and scholarly books, and publications (online and print) across the world.

Winkler's photographs are available for editorial and commercial use from Getty Images.