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August Photo Contest Winner

It's Time to Get in the Red Pages

Last Year's Edition

The Surveyor's Red Pages creates a unique opportunity for companies that provide products and services to the surveying industry to describe themselves and what they offer. 

An annual special created by Professional Surveyor Magazine, the Surveyor's Red Pages has become the source for everything relating to the surveying field and has proven to be a huge benefit to both our readers and our advertisers.

This special is:

• distributed to more than 38,000 of our readers every November 
• listed on our website all year, and
• distributed at numerous trade shows.

We estimate that each edition is viewed by more than 100,000 of your potential customers by the end of the year.

Visit the Red Pages section of our website to register today.

2009 Aerial Mapping is Here

Our fourth annual edition is in print; look for your copy with the March 2009 edition of Professional Surveyor Magazine.

It features stories about aerial photographically by leading companies in the industry, including:

• Wilson & Company, on mapping the Salt River in St. Louis after flooding
• Merrick & Company, on a project by the Denver Regional Council of Governments
• IntraSearch on assessing lidar quality

Rules and Conditions for the PSM Monthly Photo Contest

Participation: The contest is open to all eligible U.S. residents who enter by registering and submitting a photograph to be judged.

Schedule and Prizes: Each month we will select a winning photo to post on our website along with a short profile of the winner's survey shop.  If the winning photo is right for our print magazine, we'll print it on the cover instead.

How to Enter Contest: After reading and agreeing to the following rules and conditions, you may email your photos as attachments to JoAnne@ProfSurv.com. Please follow the conditions and file formats listed below.

• your name,
• contact information (email and daytime phone number),
• a background description of the photo (who, what, where, etc.) and
• a short description of your shop (name, number of employees, location, surveying specialties, etc.).

Theme: We are looking for photos that directly relate to land surveying. This includes photos of scenic, unique, and/or interesting job sites (rural, suburban, or urban scenes, for example). We’re looking for your imagination but also for your best judgment and good taste (photos composed of attractive team members simply posed next to survey equipment would not qualify).

Conditions of Photo Submissions

• Photos shall be in digital format and can be in color or black & white.
• Prints size: The larger the better; resolution of 300 DPI.
• File Formats: Only PNG, JPG, or TIFF formats can be accepted.
• You must own the photo and copyrights.
• You must not have already submitted the photo *or similar photos from the same surveying project) to any other national surveying magazine.
• You may alter only the image brightness and sharpness; any other alterations detected by the sponsor will result in disqualification of the entry at our discretion. As a condition of entry, each contestant represents and warrants to: (A) The photo submission is wholly original and does not infringe upon or otherwise violate any right of any third party. Any submission that includes content that, in our discretion, is inappropriate, indecent, or obscene will be disqualified from this contest. (B) Upon submission, all entrants give permission for their photograph to be hosted on PSM’s website and/or Professional Surveyor Magazine.

Judges and Criteria for Judging: Photos will be judged by the staff here at PSM. Criteria includes: uniqueness and originality, composition, clarity, and relevancy to the field of land surveying.