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	<description>Tropical reef paintings, photographs and tips from On The Flats Art Studio.</description>
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		<title>Diving on Cattle Boats &#8211; Why I don&#8217;t do it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Over the past five years I have been extremely fortunate to not have to climb aboard a dive boat with any more than four other people. The past five years have been comfortable, laid back, accommodating and most importantly, stress free. These incredible accolades can all be attributed to the fact that I have not had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jupiter, FL Sharks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I had the opportunity to dive Jupiter, FL to witness the annual lemon shark migration. While I spotted no lemons on my two tank dive aboard Jupiter Dive Center&#8217;s Republic VII, I was able to swim with a few Goliath grouper, some loggerhead turtles and these curious reef sharks. As a side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling Pins for Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year I am not only running the Art for the Cure charity art shows, but I am also donating art to other causes as well. This year Team Kimpossible is poised for their second annual &#8220;Strike Cancer! Spare the Tatas!&#8221; bowling event. Each year they have colored bowling pins for auction as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Painting &#8211; Dive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few week I have been working on a 36&#8243; x 24&#8243; piece to donate to an art show my wife and I were setting up. The Art for the Cure Art Show and Silent Auction was held August 28th at the Scan Design Building in Altamonte Springs, FL. The proceeds of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-under Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While photographing a local fish store here in Central Florida for their website I took it upon myself to get up close and personal with some of the clams in their display tank. The tank was a shallow breeding tank that had superb lighting necessary to grow these clams. The result was a neat over-under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PurpleStride Reef is Ready!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I am participating in the Orlando PurpleStride 5k event at Blanchard Park in Orlando, FL. Not only will I be running to raise research funds for Pancreatic Cancer for PanCan, but I have also created a custom painting for the event&#8217;s raffle. Stop by to see it in person at 8am and stick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Portraits Care of Adobe Lightroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am really enjoying working with Adobe Lightroom. The small amount of editing tools compared to Photoshop are just right when it comes to streamlining your digital photography work flow. For example, I was able to modify several &#8216;throw away&#8217; pictures I had in my archives and create something a little more artistic. These images [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamorada Dive Trip Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past week I made time to edit some of my underwater photos. With the limited visibility and my suborn attitude (I wanted to shoot all wide-angle with my new lens) the photos were less than stellar right off of the memory card. Using Adobe Lightroom, I was able to rescue a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Video Color Correction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I shared a video of an aggressive Green Moray eel while diving in Islamorada. The more I looked at the video, the more I felt that the color was way too heavy in the blue spectrum. Using Adobe Premiere I decided to work a little on the color correction. Why color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamorada Dive Trip Day 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of fishing and diving for the crew. While we weren&#8217;t able to spear any fish on the bottom of the reef, we were able to bring some bluefin tuna back by throwing plugs at a feeding school. I have also been playing around with some of my &#8216;throw away&#8217; pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamorada Dive Trip Day 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after fixing my digital camera as much as I could yesterday, I decided to take it underwater this afternoon. And I am glad I did.]]></description>
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		<title>Flooded Digital Camera Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During one of my dives yesterday I found that water was steadily streaming in from one of the glands on my Ikelite housing. It all started when I noticed I could not depress the shutter button with the shutter lever. Shortly after that, the lever came off of the housing allowing water to leak into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamorada Dive Trip Day 3 &#8211; Flooded</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the second dive of the day the shutter lever came off of my Ikelite housing. This allowed water to begin flowing into the housing. I was able to get a few mediocre shots before the flooding, so here they are. And this is the final shot from the camera just before water reached the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamorada Dive Trip Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day two was nice and relaxing. We fished off the reef but only managed to pull up a few grunts, hinds, and a large barracuda (pictures to follow). I will share an image that I neglected to post yesterday of the first undersea animal to greet us here in Islamorada. Enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Islamorada Dive Trip Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Smart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first day in Islamorada was a hot one. While on the dive boat my dive computer read 100 degrees. Despite the heat, we were able to get several good dives in. As an added bonus, during our SIT time, I was able to fight this monster off the reef.]]></description>
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