Steve Estrada Title: President Company: Estrada Land Planning Location: San Diego, California Education: California Polytechnic State University, BSLA Years in Profession: 25 Member of ASLA since:1975 ASLA Chapter. San Diego Category: Service Most notable top 3 projects: 1) Balboa Park Master Plan in San Diego, California. 2) Master Plan for two new cities in Saudi Arabia. 3) Master Land Plan & Site Plan for Las Palmas Ranch in Monterey, California. "I started out as an Architecture Major at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California. With 2 years to graduate in Architecture, I was invited to a LABASH conference in Pomona. Not really knowing what Landscape Architecture was, I went. I wandered into a room with an old man speaking to a large number of mesmerized students. What he said has stuck with me all these years and, in a way, has become my professional creed. What he said was this, I am paraphrasing. Imagine the earth as a painter?EUR??,,????'???s canvas. Architects paint small dots. Engineers connect these dots. But you are the ONLY ones that can paint the entire canvas. It is this aspect of the profession that I am most proud of."