POB Point & Shoot 2017
POB’s new Point and Shoot gallery showcases jobsites and eye-catching field views submitted by our readers throughout the year 2017. To submit your own entry or see more Point and Shoot submissions, click here.
Locating the Wetlands/Critical Line and Mean High Water Line for a proposed subdivision. North Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Source: Russell Courtney
“Cracking sections in the wood. Found old B/T fallen over, rolled it over and there she be.” Northern Idaho.
Source: Tim Linahan
“Nothing like water coming at you from all angles at your setup. It is Washington, so expect it to fall from the sky at any moment. Always carry rain gear.” Steilacoom, Wash.
Source: Derek Ruffner
Flying in cross laminated timber (CLT) for the largest square footage of CLT construction in the U.S., layout with a Leica TS12!” Hillsboro, Ore.
Source: Steven Carper
“Hold it straight, dear. Just one point and we go to the wedding.” Franjo & Amalia, June 30, 2017. Zagreb, Croatia.
Source: Franjo Želinski
Caption: Oblique aerial image of the construction of the 458,000-square-foot Robert B. Rowling Hall, at the University of Texas in Austin.
Caption: Oblique aerial image of the construction of the 458,000-square-foot Robert B. Rowling Hall, at the University of Texas in Austin.
Early morning GPS setup for mine reclamation topographic survey in Webb City, Mo.
Early morning GPS setup for mine reclamation topographic survey in Webb City, Mo.
Setting out the Royalton Hotel in Negril, Jamaica.
Source: Carlan Grey
Sunrise coming up behind one of the few remaining Bilby Towers. This photo was taken on the morning of the dedication of an Indiana historical marker for the Osgood, Ind., site in November 2016.
Source: Rose Coors, PS
Elevation certificate survey at Giants Neck Beach in Connecticut.
Source: Robert Baron, PLS
Cadastral survey for the Quiluete tribe in Forks, Wash., allowing their schools and such to move out of the tsunami zone.
Source: Nick Aldersebaes
Cadastral survey for a timber sale in in Ashland, Ore.
Source: Nick Aldersebaes
“A [topographic survey] of 25 Cuerdas in a tractor in my tropical island of Puerto Rico. Raul Donate and Luis Estades.”
Source: Luis Estades
“Surveyed this jetty with our drone. Great day at the beach!” Plum Island, Mass.
Source: James Hanley
Locating a drive for an ALTA survey [in Perry County, Ohio], and here comes a skunk and her young coming towards us. We were frozen in our tracks, and they walked within feet from us and kept on going without being sprayed.
Source: Tim Schneider
Jeff Scanniello undertaking an as-built survey of Palmer Station, Antarctica.
Source: Bob Champoux
Subsidence monitoring on the Powersite Dam in Forsyth, Mo., on the White River at Lake Taneycomo.
Photo Credit: Danny Kibel; Source: Andrew South
A boundary survey on the bluffs of the Missouri River on a late spring morning, near Kansas City, Mo.
Source: Joe McLaughlin
Preliminary survey for a cell tower and access road. Rich Mountain Battlefield, Va.
Source: Cameron Nicholas
In the case of the 200 Clarendon, formerly known as the John Hancock Tower, CoxGomyl took on the challenge of installing a new window-washing system for the 60-story skyscraper located in Boston.
Source: Cali Schwartzly
“I needed to break down a section as I was surveying an aliquant part. A small rain had just passed, so I set up my Topcon HiPer Ga and noticed a very nice rainbow. I snapped several shots, some showing a double rainbow, but this one is my favorite.”
Source: John Wittneben
2016 Nyfeler Associates control survey associated with runway repairs at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia.
Source: George Nyfeler
“I was learning how to use our new laser scanner on a church facade that was to be integrated into a new condominium project.”
Source: Phil Fedor
Randy Stelzner gets a little help from the locals during a recent boundary survey in Dubois, Wyo.
Source: Randy Stelzner
Harrison Martin makes a check shot on a section corner during a January 2015 survey to define easements for a transmission line.
Source: Randy Stelzner
While performing a dimensional control survey at a vessel, we got in the middle of this beautiful view of part of the Rio de Janeiro cost at Gyanabara Bay, with Christ the Redeemer in the background.
Source: Douglas Silveira
“While completing the control and boundary survey of a parcel of land, our field crew had an opportunity to soak up some rare winter Pacific Northwest sunshine on the Rogue River and the Avenue of Boulders in Prospect, Ore.”
Source: Andy Farber
Locating an oil line in Long Beach, Calif. The survey crew assisted the diggers, and once the lines were uncovered they collected the information, such as size, depth, material, owner and locations.
Source: Keith Donovan
Location of an original monument on the Texas-New Mexico border, as set in 1859 by John H. Clark. Known as "Clark 27."
Source: Brady Stanford