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2025 National Surveyors Week Photo Contest Winners Announced
Thanks to all our members and friends who participated in the 2025 photo contest for National Surveyors Week. It was great to see so
many different aspects of surveying and regions throughout NY. As always, the PR Committee had so many favorites, it was hard for them
to choose just one winner.

CONTEST WINNERS: Runners Up:

Best “Team” Photo
SUNY ESF Ranger School
“Beating the Bounds”

Overall Contest Winner
Featured on cover of this issue!
Azar Design Co, Architecture, Landscape Architecture,
Engineering and Surveying, P.C.
“Canalside Slip, Buffalo”
About the winning photo:
Best “Through the Scope” Photo
Jordan Harris, Party Chief, and John Connors, Instrument Person, closed a control
traverse around Buffalo’s Canalside waterfront to enable LIDAR scanning of Boswell Engineering
various buildings, statues, and ruins. The data collected will support the client’s
design and installation of new statues and artwork in the area. On behalf of NYSAPLS, congratulations to all of
The photo was taken by Peggy Gust-Anger, Azar’s Director of Marketing, our winners and a sincere thank you to everyone
on September 5, 2024, at the Buffalo Harbor, the original connection point that participated in the contest!
between the Erie Canal and the Buffalo River. In the image, Jordan is seen taking View all photo contest submissions on our
notes while the LIDAR scanner generates a point cloud of nearby ruins. This work website or Facebook page.
took place next to the full-sized replica of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief, seen in
the background. Did you participate in National
The Seneca Chief was constructed by the Buffalo Maritime Center as part of an Surveyors Week?
ambitious community boatbuilding project. First launched in 1825, the original Please share your stories with us for a chance to be
Seneca Chief marked the inaugural journey along the Erie Canal. The historic replica, featured in the Empire State Surveyor magazine. Keep
built by hundreds of volunteers inside the Longshed at Canalside from October 2020
to June 2024, now docks at the Commercial Slip during the warmer months. doing what you’re doing! We’re so proud to showcase
the hard work and dedication of our members. Thank you to

On September 24, 2025, the Seneca Chief will embark on the Bicentennial all who have reached out so far. We’re truly inspired to hear
Voyage from Buffalo to New York Harbor, honoring Governor DeWitt Clinton’s 1825 your accomplishments and view your beautiful photos!
journey and offering communities across New York State a meaningful opportunity
to reflect on the past and envision the future.
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