Donate Life Week 2013

Today heralds the beginning of DonateLife  Week 2013

It just so happens that this has been the most significant one for me as I'm still in hospital recovering from my bilateral lung transplant.


I'm not going to lie. It's been the most difficult challenge of my entire life, and I still have a very long way to go towards recovery (probably twelve months).


A I am ever so grateful to the beautiful family who donated lungs so that I now have the chance at a new life

Today also marks the beginning of the Life Flashes exhibition. All of the photos are on display in the corridor between the courtyard and the carpark at the Alfred Hospital.

Winners will be announced officially next Sunday at the DonateLife Event in Lygon St.

A huge thankyou to everyone who entered.

Please enjoy the beautiful heart mosaics from our instagram challenge last month!

Life Flashes - FMS Day 3 Heart

Heart by Melbourne Epicure

Can I just say one word - WOW!

Yesterday's photo a day challenge on Instagram was amazing.

We had over 170 people post a photo of a heart and hashtag it with #LifeFlashes to promote organ and tissue donation awareness and DonateLife Week 2013.

I'm in the process of obtaining individual permission to use each photo in a large mosaic for the Life Flashes Exhibition. So far, I have 138 photos that I can use which is absolutely fantastic.

Once everything is completed, I'll be instagramming and blogging the photo mosaics so that everyone gets to see the beautiful finished product!

There are also some beautiful photos that have been submitted in the Facebook competition so far. The top ten will be printed onto large canvasses and displayed in the exhibition. Please go and check out the entries, and even enter your own photo!

All the details for the FB comp are right here (and you don't need to be on FB to enter, as you just email your entry to Louisa, our HLTTV Membership Officer)


If you're interested in learning a little about what it's like to be on the transplant list, then ABC2 is screening the BBC documentary Love On The Transplant List Saturday night at 8.30 PM.

 

A huge thankyou to Carly for putting me in touch with Chantelle from Fat Mum Slim and a giant thankyou to each and every person who submitted a heart. It means the world!

FMS Photo A Day

Tomorrow's the day peeps!

Come and play along with Day 3 of the Fat Mum Slim Photo A Day Challenge over on Instagram.

Make sure to hashtag your photo with #LifeFlashes if you would like me to include it in an Instagram Poster for the Heart and Lung Transplant Trust (Vic) Life Flashes Exhibition at the Alfred Hospital during DonateLife Week in Feb.

Also, we only have a couple of entries in the Facebook competition so far. If you have time, entries are open til the end of January and there are prizes!

Life Flashes and the Fat Mum Slim Photo-a-Day Challenge

 

'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.

A few weeks ago, I posted about the Life Flashes photography competition that is being run throughout December and January by The Heart Lung Transplant Trust (Vic) as part of DonateLife Week 2013.

I know that everyone was really busy with the lead up to Christmas, and lots of people asked me to post a reminder once all of that was over and done with.... so here 'tis

I'm calling out to all of my creative friends today to join up for a fun photographic competition.

I'm a member of the Heart and Lung Transplant Trust (Vic). It's an organisation that assists pre and post heart and lung transplant recipients at the Alfred Hospital.

The HLTTV is running an online photographic competition named 'Life Flashes' through December and January to celebrate DonateLife Week (24th February - 3rd March 2013) and promote organ and tissue donation.

DonateLife Week is organised by the Organ and Tissue Authority and held every year to promote organ and tissue donation. The theme of DonateLife Week 2013 is 'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.


How the competiton works:

• Take / create a photo for DonateLife Week in line with the 'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.

•  Write a  50-100 word essay to accompany your photo to explain how it relates to the theme and promotes organ and tissue donation.
  

•  All photographs will be published on the HLTTV Facebook page, and shortlisted photographs will be blown up and printed on large canvasses and displayed at The Alfred Hospital during DonateLife Week 2013. They'll be seen by thousands of visitors and staff.

•  There will also be a small launch event at the start of DonateLife week where prizes will be awarded to the winners.

In other exciting news, Chantelle from Fat Mum Slim has chosen the Heart Lung Transplant Trust (Vic) as her charity for the month of January 2013.

From Fat Mum Slim:

♥ I get a lot of requests for charities to be involved in the photo a day challenges, and I’ve had trouble figuring how I could make it work. I thought that in 2013 we could donate a prompt to a charity and bring some awareness.

For January I wanted to share the charity: The heart and lung transplant trust. So prompt number 3 is for them. They’re holding a photographic competition over this month to bring awareness in the lead up to Donate Life Week 2013 {24th February – 3rd March 2013}. You can read more about it here. The photo competition is titled Life Flashes, so feel free to add the hashtag #LifeFlashes to your heart photo.

All the details on how to play along are on Chantelle's blog. On the third of January, I'm hoping to see lots and lots of hearts with the #LifeFlashes hashtag. 

If you're posting them on Instagram, make sure to include the hashtag so that I can find them all and include them in an instagram poster for our DonateLife Week Life Flashes Photograpy Exhibition at the Alfred Hospital!

Any questions - please email me!

Life Flashes

'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.

I'm calling out to all of my creative friends today to join up for a fun photographic competition.

I'm a member of the Heart and Lung Transplant Trust (Vic). It's an organisation that assists pre and post heart and lung transplant recipients at the Alfred Hospital.

The HLTTV is running an online photographic competition named 'Life Flashes' through December and January to celebrate DonateLife Week (24th February - 3rd March 2013) and promote organ and tissue donation.

DonateLife Week is organised by the Organ and Tissue Authority and held every year to promote organ and tissue donation. The theme of DonateLife Week 2013 is 'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.


How the competiton works:

• Take / create a photo for DonateLife Week in line with the 'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.

•  Write a  50-100 word essay to accompany your photo to explain how it relates to the theme and promotes organ and tissue donation.
  

•  All photographs will be published on the HLTTV Facebook page, and shortlisted photographs will be blown up and printed on large canvasses and displayed at The Alfred Hospital during DonateLife Week 2013. They'll be seen by thousands of visitors and staff.

•  There will also be a small launch event at the start of DonateLife week where prizes will be awarded to the winners.

I know that everyone is really busy in the lead up to Christmas, but you have until January 31st 2013 to submit an entry that is eligible for judging and prizes.

This project is sponsored by the Organ and Tissue Authority.


So what do you think? Are you in? Sign up below!

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The official 'Life Flashes' competition details

1. The competition is open to everyone – anyone can enter, and entrants can submit multiple photographs.
2. Photographs must promote organ and tissue donation, preferably using the DonateLife Week 2013 theme 'Make your wish count. Discover, decide and discuss organ and tissue donation'.
3. Photographs must be accompanied by a 50-100 word essay outlining how the photograph promotes organ and tissue donation, and/or relates to the DonateLife Week theme. If an essay does not accompany the photograph it will not be considered for prizes.
4. Photographs must be submitted to Louisa Walsh, Heart and Lung Transplant Trust (Vic) Inc. Membership Officer via email: membershipofficer@hlttv.org.au along with the essay. Photographs need to be larger than 2 MB, the bigger the better to blow up and print on to canvas for exhibition!
5. As photographs are submitted they will be published on a dedicated facebook page. The entrant's first name and essay will be published alongside the photograph.
6. Offensive photographs or language in the essays will not be accepted for publication.
7. Photographs will be shortlisted by the Heart and Lung Transplant Trust (Vic) Inc committee. Shortlisted photographs will then be judged by a 3 person panel, which will include a representative from the Organ and Tissue Authority. There will be a first, second and third place decided by the panel, as well as a People's Choice that will be judged through 'Likes' on facebook. There will be prizes for all place getters and the People's Choice award winners.
8. Prize winners will be contacted in the week before DonateLife Week via email.
9. All shortlisted photographs will be printed and displayed during DonateLife Week 2013, with a small launch event at the start of DonateLife Week.
10. By submitting images and essays to the 'Life Flashes' competition you are consenting to their possible future non-profit use by the Heart and Lung Transplant Trust (Vic) Inc and the Organ and Tissue Authority in awareness raising, promotional and educational material, including on websites, social media, and in paper-based publications. When used by the HLTTV or the OTA, the photograph will be credited to the original photographer.