{"id":39474,"date":"2021-10-24T22:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T11:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunrisedaily.co\/?p=39474"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:51:40","slug":"sunrise-daily-how-a-cancer-survivor-photographer-started-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunrisedaily.co\/sunrise-daily-how-a-cancer-survivor-photographer-started-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Daily – how a cancer survivor & photographer started it all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A sun-kissed surfer and a keen-eyed photographer bump into each other one morning at the beach. What happens next is pretty incredible\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The surfer, Tony, was diagnosed with cancer and given a 3% chance of survival. Embracing his zest for life, passion for helping others, and with the support of his family, he decided to be one of the 3 in every hundred to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The photographer, Neil, is a local who has always appreciated the morning glow of dawn and capturing the rays of the sunrise. Every day for the last 24 years, he\u2019s taken a photo of the sunrise (that\u2019s over 80,000 photos!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They struck up a conversation right there on the beach and left it at that. No names or numbers were exchanged but the next morning they ran into each other again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a cancer survivor, Tony knew the importance of cherishing a memory and having a talisman to hold onto. Neil had sold his sunrise prints to family and friends, but Tony wanted to bring the unique concept to every Australian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s how Sunrise Daily began. Two blokes who met on the beach creating a way for people to capture their special day through the most powerful & radiant energy force of them all\u2026 the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, people all over Australia (and the world) have honoured pivotal dates in their lives (such as the day they became cancer-free or, for some, the day of their diagnosis) with a Sunrise Daily print<\/a>. It\u2019s something that means the world to us because that was exactly Tony\u2019s mission when he set out on this journey, to remind us that the sun always rises – that there is always hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n