By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
We have a recent tradition: This year and last, we’ve created a wall calendar based on Vlad’s photos. It’s an enormous amount of fun to look through the photos and select the thirteen (including cover) that best capture our themes for the month, and the year.
We print the calendar using Shutterfly, which overall does a fine job for a reasonable price. The calendars are printed on heavy, glossy paper stock (they’re hanging on the walls now) and we’re able to customize each day of the year, adding holidays, birthdays, phases of the moon, and, of course, the times of tidal current change in Hell Gate! (Hell Gate is a good proxy for the current everywhere in the New York harbor—it basically tells us whether we’ll be kayaking north or south on a particular day).
We decided to share our 2013 photos with you. Please let us know your favorite shots. (There are some months that we’re already impatient for, because we like the photos so much!)
Cover
(Story is here.)
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
Philip Larkin, Days
January
(More photos are here.)
February
(More photos are here.)
March
(More photos are here.)
April
(More photos are here.)
May
(More photos are here.)
June
(Story is here.)
July
(Story is here.)
August
(Story is here.)
September
(Story is here.)
October
(More photos are here.)
November
(More photos are here.)
December
Happy 2013!
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 