Ryan Graduated!!!!!

Congratulations to Ryan, who graduated today, completing his required formal education. We are so proud of him ... and quite relieved that this year is over . He is thinking about where to go from here. Meanwhile, follow this link for a few pictures (warning, some of the photos are shocking).

I didn't have a long lens, but here is Ryan accepting his diploma

Derek the mad biker

Presenting a grown up Ryan. We just got in his senior pics today. Click here to download a PDF slide show of all of the photos (file size warning, the file is about 6MB).

To save a copy of the slideshow file, containing all of the pictures, first STOP the slide show by clicking the red X in the upper right-hand corner (you can also click the X on the pop-up screen that will try to get you to download Adobe Photoshop Album, or you can download it if you want, its pretty good). Look above the photo, there should now be a toolbar. To the left should be a button to "save a copy". Alternatively, you can click "file", then "save as..." to save a local copy for yourself.

To extract any photos in their original JPG format (for instance, to put in a digital frame), in the toolbar mentioned, toward the right side there should be a button that says "picture tasks." Click that, then select export pictures. Check the boxes next to the photos you want to extract (or select the box toward the bottom that says "select all." In the upper right-hand portion of the window, it will ask you where to save the photos, and will probably default to "My Pictures," which is probably fine. Or you can click the button to navigate to another directory you want to save them in. Once there, I would recommend clicking the button that says "create directory" to keep them all together. Just keep the original filenames.

I just also uploaded a zip file containing all of the photos. You just download it here, then save it on your computer. Once its saved on your computer, just right click the file to extract.

Let me know if you have any problems.