My Story

My Story

ABOUT ME
Hello!I'm Dana Warren.I didn't get into photography until my first wife bought me one of the original Kodak digital cameras as a gift.  From there I began photographing mostly birds and wildlife.  I then graduated into flowers and landscape.  Eventually I had the opportunity to photograph college sports.  After my wife passed away in 2014, my interest in photography waned.  I hope to restart my passion and begin taking advantage of my recent retirement.
Born in Ohio

Draw a line on a map between Cleveland Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania and place a dot in the center and you would cover my home for the first eighteen years of my life.

I was the last of four boys, born nine years apart my from my next oldest brother.  In some ways I was raised basically raised as an only child, which meant my brothers thought I was given all of the privileges of a king.  They were probably right.  But don't tell them that!They went on to be an engineer, an ICU nurse, and a highway patrolman.  Me, I started out with an interest in nuclear engineering but ended up in the early days of UNIX as a computer engineer.

I was named after Dana Andrews.  All four boys had to have the same initials as my father, DEW.  Hence the name of the website.  But I was supposed to be named Dawn Elizabeth.  Mom wanted a girl, as she had three sisters and had enough with three sons born within three years of each other.

Instead, she got a type-A boy that thought he knew everything.  And some say he hasn't changed.

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I met my first wife at Purdue University.  She hated me for the first two years she knew me.  After a tragic accident to my roommate, we began going to dinner when she called to see how I was doing after our summer break.  By Thanksgiving we were engaged, and within eighteen months my daughter was born.Months after my daughter's birth, my wife was diagnosed with Cancer.  She had seven battles with five different types of cancer over our 32 years of marriage.  She was a fighter.  I never met a smarter woman or better chef.  Or someone that could put me in my place when she wanted to.  But was the most docile person in public to everyone she met.
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Shortly after my first wife's passing, I had help from a wonderful woman in my community to construct a memorial garden for my wife.  We married a little less than a year after completion of the memorial. She is older than me, and most would say wiser. The engineer in me made an analysis before we got married and compared her in several areas to my first wife. We recently celebrated our tenth anniversary, strong evidence that my analysis was accurate. I won't talk about the fact that she found that steno pad with the grading when I called from the office one day and needed a page of notes from a different pad. I used to think her proclivity to move furniture and other items around every week was a way to keep me unsettled. Now I just think that she's searching for another steno pad.

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