RESTAURANT REVIEW: Yogur Story!

The Ahi Dragon

RESTAURANT REVIEW: YOGUR STORY

When I first heard of Yogur story, I was honestly confused. Were they just one of the hundreds of Yogurt shops that had been popping up everywhere? Or maybe they were a yogurt shop that doubled as a small town library? Why did they call themselves Yogur, without the "T"? Did they even serve Yogurt? And what in the world was a"Yogur?" An animal? A fish? Or maybe an alter-ego superhero in an upcoming movie? A spore? Possibly the name of my new ex-wife?

When I asked our waitress these questions, she just stared at me and said, "The name of your ex-wife name is Judy and she will take all your money. Now here are the specials of the day..."

"That's funny, I don't know any Judy's...yet.."

Yogur Story is a modern cafe/dine-in restaurant whose food quality matches its decor; tastefully done and creative.

For the night, I had some type of fish dish called the "Ahi Dragon." My former elementary school classmate, and sidekick for the night, had the Chicken pasta. Both dishes passed the grade as far as quality. And for service, what can I say. The gypsy/waitress was very prompt, courteous, and predicted my future ex-wife, so I owed her some type of big tip right? An interesting menu item that caught my eye was their prime rib locomoco, which consisted of a slice of prime rib on rice, with two sunny-side eggs, and smothered with brown gravy. That's intense...

Chick Pasta. The chicken is in there somewhere

Yogur story is primarily known for their waffles. Unfortunately, I was just too full to taste any dessert. I predict that their dessert should be pretty good. After all, they cooked my fish dish perfectly, and that's much harder to do than cooking waffles.

Yogur story is located on 815 Keeaumoku Street, which is near the Ala Moana Shopping center. And yes, they also serve Yogurt. Prices range from $12 to $17 per dish, which is not bad at all.


Steve Young

Scott and Rhonda

SCOTT AND RHONDA!

Scott and Rhonda tied the knot on the west shore on a private property called the Makaha Bamboo Compound. They hired me to provide them with digital photography and 3 camera video coverage.

Their wedding service consisted was a great Christian ceremony that combined a praise and worship session and an awesome wedding service by two of their church pastors. Yes! They had two pastors for their wedding! I mic'ed up both ministers to get full audio coverage of the entire ceremony. The ministers, who know the in's and out's of audio, made sure they positioned themselves perfectly so that I could pick up everything, vows, praise and worship services...

Here is their video in its entirety.


Steve

Vow renewal!

IT'S A VOW RENEWAL!

I honestly don't do many vow renewals per year. It's not that I turn them down, it's just that more people plan on getting married in Hawaii than getting their vows renewed in Hawaii. So here's a quick video for all of my wedding stalkers. There are definitely more videos to come! I sitll need to blog about my Christmas and New Years too. Anyway....no time for that now. I have to head to out of here and shoot a wedding in four hours.

Enjoy the video in the meantime!

Steve Young

Wedding in the rain?

MORE FROM THE WEDDING IN THE RAIN
ON 11-11-11

This is their wedding video! It probably was one of the very few weddings where it just poured during the ceremony. Even to my surprise, the video actually came out pretty darn good. Here it is in it's entirety!

I'll be blogging soon about my Christmas and New Years as well!

Steve

Rain rain go away....

A candid shot. I took this on film, toyed with some filters on the computer
and now this looks like an antique photograph doesn't it? This was a 11-11-11
sunrise wedding. It STORMED across the entire island in the morning...ironically, the rest of the day was perfect weather.

RAIN RAIN, GO AWAY

Plan B for bad weather

One of the most common concerns with couples planning a Hawaii Wedding, or any outdoor wedding is the weather. "What if it rains on my wedding day Steve?" is a common question I get asked all the time.

My answer?

Well, most likely, it will rain on your wedding day somewhere in Oahu. But chances are, it won't rain at your ceremony because I plan most of my weddings on the North or West shore, which just so happens to be the dryer side of the island. Rain conglomerates around where I live, on the windward side of the Island, in Kaneohe, around the east side of the island.

But what happens if rain does strike on your wedding day? And this isn't just a passing shower, it's an "epic monsoon style movie like rainstorm made for Vietnam movies." Well, we have a couple choices to choose from:

1) We could go on with your wedding in the pouring rain (which is never the best option)
2) We can postpone your wedding date
3) We can perform your ceremony and take those blue sky photos on another day if time permits.

I think this shot is one of my favorite shots I have ever taken in my life because
it says a lot. Maybe that marriage can survive any stormy weather?
It falls more into the art category than wedding photo category doesn't it?

Let me repeat!! More than likely, you shouldn't have to worry about rain on your wedding day. Rarely does it rain across the entire island. If it's raining on the North Shore, we'll move your location to the west shore. If it's raining on the west or North shore of the island, we'll move it east. Before each wedding, I check the radar map to see where the rain is at, and will give you a heads up on the weather we are looking at.

And lastly...don't worry about your pictures. If it rains. I still can get great photos for you. They'll just look different than what you're used to seeing on my website.

Oh, before I forget, Andrea got rain on her wedding day.. But, she also got a rainbow on her wedding day...isn't that cool? No computer graphics here.

Steve

Another video!

Trent and Kirsty from Steven Young on Vimeo.

Trent and Kirsty's Full Wedding Video

Trent and Kirsty tied the knot in Hawaii earlier on September 1, 2011. This is their full wedding video edit, which includes their entire ceremony, and a handful of highlights from the ceremony. Missing are the speeches from her parents and the bridal court. Those speeches can be found on their DVD, in a separate chapter.

Kirsty told me that for her video, she wanted to chronically showcase the pictures I took on her wedding day from the time she got ready to when the end of her day. So this wedding video took on a different look and feel altogether. I employed a new video slideshow software to create some pretty entertaining slideshows to give it a bit more punch.

Kirsty and Trent came from a Canada to get married in Hawaii. Their referral came down from a previous couple who I had their Hawaii Wedding on the same property just a couple years ago. Those friends who got married a couple years ago, also were referred to me by a previous couple of mine, who were also from Canada, and also got married on Oahu, on the same property, about five years ago. Is it five? I think it's five. Time flies by.

Well...Today is Friday, and I have a wedding today. So... I better get going!

Steve
The WEDDING GUY!

Cheap awesome slideshows.

Spencer and Lesley from Steven Young on Vimeo.

PICTURES FROM A RECENT HAWAII WEDDING

Thought I'd just post this really quick. I'm headed out to a wedding now at Ko'olina. The video slideshow was produced with an automated web based slideshow program that is pretty darn cool that I purchased. I'm offering the service to create these simple yet awesome animated slideshows, to burn a DVD and to stream it over VIMEO, for $75.00.

Personally, I think they are cool, but they don't really have that full story effect of full screen shots that are held for 5 to 7 seconds a piece. But still...I think it's a great affordable and easy way to showcase your photos to friends and family over the web in a very short presentation over your cellphone or through facebook!

On a side note. This is the first wedding in Hawaii that I performed in a hotel room. Hey, there's a first for everything. After the wedding, we headed down to Lanikuhonua's cove and took some great sunset shots. The lighting in the hotel room was EXTREMELY tricky, but not that difficult. Just tricky.

Steve

SLIDESHOW -

Jenkins comes home from Steven Young on Vimeo.

MORE OF BRIAN AND MARIA

The black and white roll just arrived from the photo lab of Brian and Maria's homecoming pictures. The pictures came out awesome. I put a handful of their selected pictures together in a montage to a song called "Victim of Love" by Jon Roberts. The song is from an unknown artist and he is awesome. That kid is talented. Some of the words don't apply to the slideshow, but it sure gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling.

I blogged about this happy couple last week. If you missed that blog, either scroll down a few blogs or click here

Enjoy!

Steve