Happy Sunday afternoon, wonderful, neglected readers. Thanks for sticking around! I have a LOT of catching up to do.

First, some information:
– I’m currently arranging summer trips to GERMANY, HOLLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, STOCKHOLM, COPENHAGEN and (if I get my way) a little Greek Island. Then, from September onwards, I’ll likely be in some further flung places, including JAPAN, culminating in AUSTRALIA in early 2016. I’ll try and update with some specifics at some point, but as always, it’s always 100% more fruitful for you to just contact me directly and inform me if your location is (or isn’t) on my agenda: ellarosemuse@live.co.uk. I rarely post travel notices/casting calls anymore, sorry – it’s better to just get in touch. 🙂
– Have you had a look at my new blog over at www.erwhittington.com? Please ignore it completely if you are uninterested in cosmology, colours and the universe, as that’s what I seem to be waffling about most, these days. I even have a twitter account, though (admittedly) I am not the world’s most prolific twittler.

Did you see some of these shots on my facebook profile, recently? The photographer Joana Kruse and I spent much of the 2-hour shoot inside a car waiting for the rain to stop, and in the end we just thought, oh well, let’s embrace it, and ended up getting a lot done in a very short amount of time (albeit only in one outfit). So I was drizzled on quite a bit throughout… But hey, it’s not often you get to work in a field of wild ponies. England (and The New Forest) is so beautiful. My instagram account was kept nice and busy.

Joana’s photography has been published on book covers all over the world, including for authors such as Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, so I’m looking forward to seeing what some of these images end up on.

I’m just going to post a lot, because I like the stories/connections between some of the shots…

I’ll try and update again soon…! 🙂

And you thought I’d forgotten about this blog…!

Here are some new shots taken by J H on our fourth jaunt to Pareee. We fell in love with ‘A Priori Thé’, which served the most delicious Jasmine tea, and so did, naturally, become a priority as well as a self-evident philosophical truth.

My clear favourite is the first one in the golden dress. I felt a bit like Athena. Well done J!

Finally, I make absolutely no apologies for the flurry of bluebell images that are going to appear on this blog very soon… My favourite patch is looking amazing at the moment; so shockingly vibrant. They have been calling to me (and willing victims photographers have been volunteering to take them on)! 🙂

The title makes sense when you take a look at these anomalies, two results from one of the most surreal shooting experiences of my life with Peter Kelly. I definitely hope I’ll get to pose in his Python-esque playpen again next time I’m upside down (probably later this year).

…And here are two more from Adrian Spencer, which I almost forgot to show you. Here I am modelling Clessidra Couture… I modelled for these soon after darkening my hair a bit – it’s faded slightly now, but is similar…

I can’t even begin to describe how ‘all over the place’ in a good way I am at the moment, so I am really really sorry if things get slightly quiet here from time to time – my life is going in several directions at once. It’s very exciting! Meanwhile, the shoots that I’m doing at the moment are producing work that cannot be blogged, so I suppose my standards here may be slipping. But hey, as mentioned in my last post in more detail, I’ll write more over HERE in between my more image-tastic updates. 🙂

I’m in the Oxford Times today, as part of a limited edition ‘Boho Bride’ feature, modelling Clessidra Couture, photographed by Adrian Spencer (with make up by Shameem Kumar and flowers by ‘Budd’s Flowers by Design’). We got some really gorgeous images that day! Glad to see I’m championing whimsical, fairytale weddings in my hometown! 🙂

In other news, could I please ask you all to step over to my brand new website:

I’ll be blogging there regularly with tidbits, extracts and ponderings from my life and my writing research. Yep, this is the place to be if you happen to like my writing style and want to pay attention to my gatherings of eclectic musings and accompany me on my hopeful meanderings towards authorship…

This will remain my modelling blog, of course, but the new place (link above) is an additional, deeper collection of words and thoughts, so will, I hope, more than fill in the gaps between the image-filled posts I publish over here.

I am also newly found on >>>>>>>TWITTER<<<<<<<, where I am currently a bit lonesome (and still figuring out how exactly to use it!!), so why not follow me there too and show me some love? 🙂

As you can see, I’m distilling a particular part of myself (the writerly part) into a separate patch of the online world to give it more focus, and really enjoying being proactive. On the website, which will function mainly as a blog, you can expect words and thoughts on all manner of things, from God, love, online dating to homelessness, maths and chickens – all my behind the scenes nonsense which flits through my brain as I research the novel I’m writing (which is described, sort of, over on the website), as well as the odd excerpt from my current work in progress. It’s all going to gain momentum quite quickly, I think, and is going to be quite fun! All are welcome and your encouragement genuinely means a lot.

Thank you all very much – I really do appreciate the support!

Ah, it’s Sunday (day of rest, Radiohead & baklava… :-)). Time for a quick blog catch up, I think!!

Oh dear, I can’t pretend I’m not a bit behind on this blog! Time has been flying for me lately and I’ve been happily busy, but I’m keen to show some more images here (with plenty more coming up as always!), and this edition features some by Mark Russell, who was a pleasure to work with. We wandered around the natural environment near where I live (for clarification, though, I do live in an actual house) and I really enjoyed making these! They’re a bit fresh and summery-looking… I’m dreaming of warmer weather and getting excited every time I find myself not feeling too blustery and cold at the moment. Not that I mind wrapping up warm – I do like winter for all it has to offer… But I’m so glad the days are getting longer!