How A Burger by the Columbia Launched my Digital Media Career

Cascade Locks OR

I took this photo, seven years ago, using the digital image function (640 x 480, very low res) on my Sony TRV-900 camcorder.

It's under the Bridge of the Gods in Cascade Locks, OR along the Columbia River.

It's quite fitting that I've returned to this region for the first time since then, on a "Faculty Fellows" field tour as a professor with the University of Washington.  Because I wouldn't have gotten here (as Director of the UW's Master of Communication in Digital Media) without going there (Cascade Locks, OR).

How do the two connect?  Read on...