(… earrings, not that you’d know it from today’s particular images.)

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Have you noticed this blog’s brand new look? All style decisions on here are transitory, of course (there are endless colour options I could play with), but I like it for now. It’s all to bring things more in line with my…

>>>…BRAND NEW WEBSITE! <<<

I’m proud to say I did it all by myself (on my ‘days off’…). It was quite fun, actually, and the main reason I decided my website needed an overhaul is that I found it very difficult (and very very slow) to update with new images and info, which led to me not really keeping it particularly up to date. Well, that problem is no more, and I can now even update my website from all over the world, so long as I have the images with me on whatever gadget I have at the time (this is particularly good for when photographers/artists send me their results from our work via email). It’s also a lot easier to navigate on mobile devices.

Hope you like it! Expect lots of frequent additions there as well as my usual blog posts here.

In other news, I’m still keeping ridiculously busy. Today has been a blissful vegging-out kind of day, gorging on the book by this fluency-expert. You’ll have a vague idea of what I get up to on and between shoots if you’re a friend of mine on facebook…

And here are some stylish monochrome images from a lovely little shoot with Luc Bollen in Brussels. It was a pleasure to shoot with him and I certainly hope to do so again (perhaps next year). The dress in the second set, incidentally, is the one I wore a couple of nights ago to the formal dinner at an international corsetry conference I modelled at. The after-dinner speaker was a favourite designer of Dita Von Teese! Expect some corset-themed images coming this way soon-ish, as I had the incredible experience of modelling for 8 different designers who’d been working on their custom designs for me since February!

Hope you’re all well! I’ve been sooooo busy recently I’m  having a really slowed-down weekend, which is brilliant! Previous days off have included working hard on a brand new website… and working days have involved trips to the beach… it’s all been a bit upside down! I’m very excited to be the new face of The Wool Company, and am busy looking up flights and options for my trips in October to some places I haven’t been before! 🙂 Also looking forward to Downton Abbey being on our screen again this autumn – I’ll be in one episode! I’ve been doing quite a few filming days recently on various things – it’s all got to be secret and hush-hush, unfortunately, but let’s just say that next year (and the year after) I think I’ll be going to the cinema a LOT to see some of the films being released! 🙂

In the meantime, some images from Karen Jones, from out and about!

I’ll announce the new site when it’s done… And I’ll keep blogging as always in the meantime!

I had a really good shoot in the Netherlands recently with photographer Martin. He wanted to add some more classical nudes to his portfolio, and I think we achieved that. The location was a beautiful natural park area, which had suffered some devastation (fire) out of which new green shoots were popping up all over the place. The colours were so vibrant that we couldn’t resist using the blacks, lime greens and orange shades as an unusual background against which to pitch a pale nude body…

I’ll post some different sets from this shoot soon! 🙂

Some fings wot I’ve done recently:

– Trekked a bit of Snowdonia with a photographer, to find a beautiful lake (and several school trips; patience was a virtue!!!)
– Attended a wedding and spontaneously made a ‘music video’ with a friend on the way to the portaloos. No, I wasn’t drunk (I don’t drink as I’m slightly allergic, though I did have one pimms; weddings are an exception!!) The evidence on my camera is highly amusing.
– Spontaneously shooting with an incredibly talented photographer in Woodstock, wearing a wig and accidentally causing damage-by-orange-smoke-bomb (the photographer went back and cleared it up!!)
– Wielding a couple of paintbrushes for a fortnightly community group I volunteer at; we have to be working on our own projects as well as interacting with the guests. My ridiculous ‘landscape out-of-focus’ was deemed appropriate for the Ashmolean (which is obviously a lie). I am going to do more though; painting is something I’ve been meaning to do more of for basically my entire life, and it’s very relaxing to play with colours.
– Other stuff I can’t remember – my life is basically a blur.
– Getting cast in some cool TV/film work (just tiny parts, but fun nevertheless).
– Re-starting my amazing (and brilliantly toning and exhausting) dance classes, which I’ve not been able to attend since Feb (when I found I had whooping cough, which lasted until my trip to Holland in April, after which I’ve just been travelling too much for modelling gigs, and which leads me to today’s visual update….)…

Three simple studio nudes sent to me by Hans Miller, taken in Den Haag, Netherlands (where I stayed with the very lovely model Zoi).

Oh, and some more sensible updates:

I’m currently in possession of a couple of schedule gaps, due to cancellations, etc:
– CORK – Tue 19th August (and possibly one other date)
– SCOTLAND (Edinburgh/Glasgow/Fife/Dundee, ideally) – Sun 21st September (and possibly one or two nearby dates; flexible for now)
….Happy to hear from anyone interested, by email (ellarosemuse@live.co.uk) or via one of the portfolio sites, e.g. http://www.modelmayhem.com/881729

– Your name/alias
– Your city/area
– Your website link (if applicable)
– A link/URL to your profile on a portfolio-hosting/networking site (MM/PP, etc.)
– Any other links or info you fancy throwing my way

You may have seen these popping up on my facebook profile, as photographer Samuel Somers has tagged me in a few… From a very productive, short shoot in Antwerp, Belgium (quick post as I’m rushing with last minute organisation for going to Norway tomorrow!):