Cool Stuff | Jeff Mason Wedding and Portrait Photographer

I was surfing through the iPhone Applications on the Apple.com site and came across this really cool FREE music player Pandora Radio. It is based on the Music Genome Project which is an ongoing project that analyzes songs and artists using up to 400 distinct musical characteristics. These attributes are captured, cataloged, and entered into a database. You just type in the name of your favorite artist or songs and the Genome Project does the rest. It searches through its database and plays those songs and artists that share the characteristics of the song you entered. It’s really cool, if it plays a song you don’t particularly like you can click a thumbs-down icon and the player knows not to play that song or songs that match its characteristics.

I’m really enjoying having it on my desktop in my home office. The sound quality is incredible and pumping it through my harmon/kardon speakers ROCKS! An account is FREE and I’m looking forward to traveling next week and being able to take the “stations” that I have created with me on iPhone. Oh, yeah, there is the iPhone app that I mentioned above. Check it out.

Last weekend Cristiana Garcia and I photographed Ashley and Marc’s wedding at the Sandpearl Resort on Clearwater beach. It was a beautiful wedding and I will post more about Ashley and Marc in a follow-up. This is about the Laura Lee Designs handbags that Ashley and the bridesmaid carried. Marc’s sister Alison “AT” works for Laura Lee and had these very cool Bridal Bags for the girls. According to AT each of the Bags had over 3,000 beads sewn onto it! It seems that these are the smaller bags and that some of her creations have 25,000-30,000 beads!! Folks these are really works of art. Check out the link above to Laura Lee’s site and be sure to read her About section, it’s a really interesting story of how her designer business came to be.

Alison, I’m glad I was able to get a few of these special shots for you.