Canon's Creative for a Cause
We've found another fabulous way for you to support the Stillbirth Foundation Australia. It is a fun and very easy exercise requiring only a couple of minutes of your time and well worth the effort!
Canon have created a website entitled "Creative for a Cause" on which photographers can load photographs that depict a cause Australians are passionate about. The general public is then able to vote for their favourite photograph, and the one with the highest number of votes is the winner. Canon will donate $60,000 to the charity nominated by the winning photographer.
We are incredibly fortunate that we have two photographs listed on this site, both kindly nominating the Stillbirth Foundation Australia as the charity should their photographs win.
The first photo has been listed by the wonderful Belinda Pratten of Freeswimmers who has entered a beautiful photograph entitled "Humpback Frolic". Belinda has creatively and cleverly highlighted two very important causes through this photograph, that of whales and stillborn babies, the first recognised and the latter less so.
The second photo is by talented surfing photographer Nathan Smith entitled "Kelly Slater - March 2009" and is an amazing action shot, accompanied with a very apt quote about the number of elements that needed to come together to capture a very brief moment in time.
We would like to encourage you do to things:
- Please vote on both photographs by following the below links to the photographs (please note there might be a small delay as the images load) and select "VOTE" on the bottom right of the screen. You will be asked to verify some letters and for your email address. Please know that Canon use this email address only to ensure that one vote is placed per email address, not for marketing purposes.
- Please forward this message or email link to as many friends, family, work colleagues and associates as you can. We need as many votes as we can get, and it would be lovely to fully utilise this fabulous electronic web of communication to spread news of our cause and our need for votes as far and wide as possible.
Voting links to:
Remember, if either of these photographs is the most popular, the Stillbirth Foundation Australia wins $60,000! This considerable amount of money can make a significant difference to reducing the numbers of babies delivered stillborn in Australia through funding either two years of a PhD project or an entire research project - thus providing us with valuable information and the ability to ultimately save babies' lives. And, all it takes from you is a couple of clikcs and a few moments of your time. Please help... Thank you!