By Vladimir Brezina
The last weekly Photo Challenge of 2012 is—My 2012 in Pictures!
It’s been impossible to select the best photos. There are just too many photos to look through—I’ve posted more than 2,000 on this blog in 2012—and it takes more resolution than I am capable of at the moment to cull them severely. It’s like killing your children…
So here are, by no means the best photos of 2012, but just 12—one for each month—that in future years may remind Johna and me of some of the memorable stories of 2012—
January: An aborted kayak trip turns into an unexpected adventure on the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn
February: Brown pelicans perform a pas de deux near St. Petersburg, Florida
March: Early crocuses and insects in NYC’s Central Park
April: We visit the 9/11 Memorial, Manhattan
May: Johna’s open-water kayak training in Rhode Island (photo by John Ozard)
June: Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
July: We land on the North Shore of Long Island during our kayak circumnavigation of the island
August: Sunrise over the ocean in Key Biscayne, Florida
September: Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition in New York Harbor
October: Even rats drowned during Hurricane Sandy
November: Fall colors in NYC’s Central Park
December: Conch emerges from its shell on St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
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The stories and more photos are here:
- January: Red Hook: An Unexpected Adventure
- February: Pas de Deux
- March: Spring Has Sprung, Seemingly
- April: In Memoriam
- May: Where the Wild Rocks Are: Rock Gardening in Rhode Island
- June: Manhattan Island Marathon Swim 2012: Follow the Red Herring!
- July: Long Island Kayak Circumnavigation: Day 8—Independence Day
- August: Key Biscayne Sunrise
- September: We’re Off to the (Tugboat) Races!
- October: Sandy Saga, Part 4
- November: Images of Fall
- December: Emergence
We hope that 2013 will turn out to be equally memorable and picturesque!
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
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