Okay, this is late but it's worth posting.  Congratulations to Justin for winning our second Support My Tribe poker game!  His prize was a 24x30 canvas print of my Skull of Suits piece!  We raised $500 that was split and given to two friends who were having financial struggles.
 

Tim busted out first and won the sheep but since he rebought this prize ended up with Courtney.

Beertuck busted out second and won a lovely hat!

This past Saturday Cassandra and I hosted our first Support My Tribe poker game.  First prize was a box-framed canvas print (24x30 inches) of some poker art work I had created + a print.  Second place got two prints, third and fourth each got a print. 

The battle was fierce.  Ken stepped up early with some hyper-aggressive play and started bullying the table by instilling fear in their hearts.  The hand of the night occured when Mike flopped a full house and baited a trap for Ken.  They got all-in on the turn and Ken flipped over kings; he was dead to a king.... which happened to fall on the river (3.8% odds).  Ken added to his stack.

A short time afterwards Landa got involved in a few hands with Ken and started adding to her stack.  It wasn't long before she took over and we had a new chip leader!  Steph watch Ken and Dan and Landa battle and eventually Landa prevailed.  Steph and Landa remained.  At this point Landa had about 95% of the chips on the table so the heads-up action was shortlived and Landay took it down!

Thanks so much to the 11 players that cam to play.  Prizes were all art and all proceeds from player buy-ins, as well as a few print sales, go to the SMT fund.  We raised $400 with this game and those funds will be given to two friends who have been in rough shape financial due to medical issues.

Pictured is Landa with her prize!

I have added two new features to my site today. 

The first is the ability to purchase prints from many of the pages of this site.  If you see a green button that looks like you can click it to order a print, well, you can.  Most of the model shots, many of the Art shots and some of the 'Other' shots are available for purchase.

The second is a new section called Support My Tribe.  This is a new initiative I am starting to help friends-in-need via sales of artwork. Follow that link for more details but in short it means that if you buy something from here you are also committing a social good.  Also, to kick this off you can use the promotion code of SMT25 to get 25% off your order for the rest of the year.

There are still many things I want to do on this site but I have deadlines looming for work that will keep me from making a lot of progress until the new year.  Some of the changes involve:

• a site facelift
• lots of conversion optimization to provide an improved user experience
• a retooled front page with more emphasis on current news and new art pieces
• the likely creation of a companion site at SupporttMyTribe.com
• disclaimers about how some photography may be slightly cropped to fit the output medium
• new art and photography!!!

Thanks for reading this and I hope you spread the word!