Today is Friday, January 7th. Merry Christmas everyone! This would be the day when we would celebrate Christmas back in Russia. According to the Orthodox calendar Jesus was born today, not two weeks ago:). Its interesting though, in our culture kids get all their presents on New Years. And Santa, whom we call “Ded Moroz” also comes on the new years eve. According to the folk stories, Russian Santa also has a grand daughter named “Snegurochka”. She is the one who helps distribute the presents to the children.

To me the story of “Ded Moroz”, or Russian Santa was always more believable. According to Russian mythology Ded Moroz exclusively comes to Slavic kids and with  him  rides “Snegurochka” on Russian sledge behind three horses. I bet you didn’t know that:))

Anyways, below is a recent photo shoot with Jeremy and Tamila. It was a great pleasure to work with them. This couple really didn’t hesitate to pour out their feelings and emotions in front of a camera. They are pretty legit :)