Robert Winkler

Robert Winkler is a photographer, writer, and naturalist living in the Shepaug-Bantam River Valley of Washington, CT, a small town in the Northwest 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 & Leisure magazine, he was The Traveling Photographer columnist.

With over 40 years of field experience as a naturalist, Winkler was a consulting writer-editor 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 much of his career, he 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, and nature close-ups. In 2020, he signed with Getty Images as an exclusive photography contributor. Images from his Getty portfolio of some 5,500 images, including all photos on his website, can be licensed for editorial or commercial use.

Winkler's thousands of 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, Harvard Business Review, 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.