Snowy Maternity Session at Nathaniel Greene Park | Springfield, Missouri

Snow has a way of quieting the world.
Edges soften. Time slows. Everything feels a little more sacred.

Pregnancy feels the same.

It’s a season where the most important things happen quietly. Where your body becomes a place of waiting and wonder — holding someone you haven’t met yet, loving them before you know their face, trusting what’s growing even when you can’t see it.

Like winter, pregnancy carries its own kind of beauty. There is softness and strength living side by side. Awe and exhaustion. Anticipation and surrender. You are changing, even on the days it feels still.

Standing in falling snow, time seems to pause — just long enough to notice what matters. Pregnancy invites that same slowing. A gentle reminder to breathe, to trust the process, to believe that something beautiful is forming beneath the surface.

Don’t blink,

Esther Ziegler

Esther Ziegler

I’m Esther Ziegler, an award-winning photographer with over a decade of professional experience. I’ve been working full-time in photography since 2010 and operating my business formally since 2012.

I photographed more than 300 weddings earlier in my career before shifting my focus in 2019 to serving growing families. Today, I specialize in maternity, newborn, and childhood photography.

I run a full-service studio in southwest Missouri and work with families throughout the Springfield area.

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