In the Green Room with Julian Wilde.

I’ve decided to share with you a private part of my life and a part of my own home. I’m sharing this with you before I invite models into it and before I start shooting it. That way, you can say that you saw it first. I’m also doing this as a kind of thought experiment. What you are seeing is a kind of “Green Room” in our home. I wonder, if in your own mind, in the theatre of your own mind, if you are beginning to “see” what I’m beginning to see happening in this one room. Let your mind play for awhile on this little stage. As an experiment, put a few of those “visions” into a file in your own mind. Because over the next few weeks, you’ll start seeing what I’m seeing in my mind’s eye. We’ll compare notes later. Enjoy!

Thanks for visiting the Wilde Side!

-JULIAN

PS. Oh!! Is that a copy of my new book “WildeBeauty!?” Such shameless self-promotion!

When a Beauty Shot is more than a Beauty Shot.

Sometimes a little color is just what a beauty shot needs. In this case, Rachael ended up feeling just a little blue!

To be featured in “WildeBeauty, Rated W,” 2012 Collector’s Edition.

The Splendour of a Perfect Sunset...

Some things are too good not to share. This vision is one of my personal all-time faves. There is something elegant and essential about having only three basic elements in an image and still being able to communicate the splendour and the majesty of this world. I feel that if you scraped this world to the bone and this was all you had left, it would still be an incredibly beautiful thing. I shot this yesterday and just heard from my editor today that this image is being used for the cover of my upcoming and soon to be released fine art coffee table book “The Dream Oracle.” I think her choice is perfect and I couldn’t be more pleased. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks again for joining us,

-JULIAN

This image is also exhibited and for available for purchase on The Red Bubble.

Model Kenzie Smith takes a run at The Love Letter.

Some love letters are harder to write than others. Here, Super Model in the making Kenzie Smith, faces a bout of writer’s block while also working on her typing skills. As Kenzie told me during the shoot: “I just want to get this right!” And yet, something tells me that whatever this girl writes will not only hit just the right note, but will be just what the doctor ordered.

Photogrpahed in The Grand Salon at WildeStudio. March 21, 2012

To be featured in “WildeBlue, Rated W.” 2012 Edition. All Rights Reserved.

Thanks for dropping by The Wilde Side!

-JULIAN

The Queen of the Forest and Her white velvet sofa.

After creating this set for a designer friend of mine, my lovely and self-possessed 14 year old model, Courtney Shea stepped onto the stage and with the imperial charm of a Queen assumed her position upon the fur-adorned white velvet sofa. I made the point of playing a romantic and beautiful piece of music by fave French sensation Jeanne Mas. The mood was set. As I sat down to capture the image, I turned to my very talented friend and make-up artist and confided: “Sometimes I cannot help but feel that deep down I’m not really a photographer. People think I am. But really, I’m a Set Designer who throws big parties for a living.” We fist bumped and I shot the image within a few minutes. {winks}

To be featured in “The Fine Art of Dreaming.” All Rights Reserved, 2012.

Nic White watches her fave channel at WildeStudio.

Wilde model Nic White enjoys her fave images while hanging out at the studio. As you can imagine… Nic always has a standing invitation to come over and watch TV with us.

-JULIAN

Featured in “WildeBlue.” 2012. All Rights Reserved.

Water Bearer of Ancient Rome.

Every now and then I like to time travel back to a simpler time.
A time before the electric glare and the hammering din of the city.
A time when men supported themselves by the sweat of their brow.
A simpler time when at the end of a long day of honest labor,
dreams came fast and sleep ran deep.
The Waterbearers of Ancient Rome if from that long ago time
and that long ago place in our collective memory.
But for me…
it also strikes a chord so deep in my psyche and my soul,
that it feels like the song of my days
and the living prayer of my heart.
For where there is work,
there is Love.

-JULIAN

“And if you should disdain from work,
then it is better that you should sit at the gates of the temple…
and and take alms from those who work with joy!

“Excerpted from “The Prophet.” By Kahlil Gibran

“Waterbearer of Ancient Rome,” will be featured in my book “The Dream Oracle.”

I remember seeing a lithograph poster while I was in college that blew my mind. The “photographic”image was quite small and centered in the middle of the perhaps 24 x 36″ graphic. And although it was sensationistic or explicit in any way, it did seem to depict a woman “onstage and in the spotlight.” For me, in my early twenties… the image was incredibly erotic and suggestive. Even now, a thousand years later… the image is still burned into my mind. Had I bought the poster I wonder if it would still have the sway over me that it does to this day. That I’ll never know. After all it was 60 bucks I didn’t have. But I do know, that the experience of shooting this image with Canadian glamour model Shelley Lynne is at least a close second! And maybe even a little more fun.

Thanks for dropping by “The Blue Room.”

-JULIAn

PS. A 3 image sequence from the above shoot will be featured in my next book “WildeBlue, Rated W.”

Beauty Model Rachael Mitchell for WildeBeauty.

Meet Rachael. This ultra glamour head shot of this new swimwear and beauty model is my choice for Wilde Pic of the Week. The qualities that Rachael brings to a shot like this are obvious to even a casual observer. She has the classic, singular beauty of a young Ursula Andres or a Grace Kelly. But it is her soft yet deeply penetrating intensity that makes this image unforgettable to me. It is her keen connection with the camera, it is her unwavering focus, it is her strength, her poise and her energy that defines this image and recalls for us in so many ways, the eye of the tiger. I believe that there is a special power in beauty, and this image of Rachael speaks directly to that power.

This image is excerpted from the Unrated Version of “WildeBeauty, 2012.”

Thanks for dropping by The Wilde Side,

-JULIAN

Fashion: Ancient and Futuristic

Every so often I get the urge to see something happen with one model that may be milliniums apart.
And so it was Shantia, my long-legged and ever-so-lovely model from Arizona. I began wanting to see her as an ancient tribal princess. Perhaps a storied Celtic beauty of The Dark Forest–the stuff legends are made of. And so, along with my creative team, aka “Team Wilde,” lead by Raven, we began to imagine our beautiful nubile, ivory-skinned model as a figure of legend. I was looking for a natural, unaffected elegance, so rather than clothe her from head to toe, we tucked her long redhair into a fantastic, reimagined royal headdress of feathers and fur, and let her beautiful body tell the most enchanting parts of the story… Shantia began slowly and subtley posing for us and minutes later, the legend was re-born!

We followed that with a decidedly futuristic look and a more conspicuous lighting scheme. We were looking for the Ultimate Glam Rocker of The Future. Our team strapped Shantia into a tight leather half-jacket of polished leather and fitted her with a platinum blonde wig with a precision industrial cut. My stylist “The Amazing Jodi” powered up the make-up in a number of ways, including large lashes and a harder, slicker, more finished, more defined look. With a touch of Marilyn, a hint of Gaga and a strong helping of amped up sex appeal… Shantia had taken us into The Future!!

The best part? We did the entire 2 sets in less than 15 minutes.

But that’s how it is on The Wilde Side. Life happens fast.

Thanks again for dropping by,

-JULIAN

“Dichotomy,” is featured in my new 2012 fine art coffee table book titled “WildeBeauty, Unrated.”