A look back at 2013 in pictures

Requisite slideshow, with a picture for each month of the year.

January

The sun bursts over the Queensboro Bridge pedestrian walkway, my customary commute to work.

February

Shadow play with tangled trees and birds along Northern Boulevard, near our apartment in Queens.

March

Street art on an electrical box, always fascinating.

April

On a trip to visit my mother in Oregon, we hiked to Triple Falls.

May

An Anish Kapoor piece at Frieze Art Fair in New York turned our world upside down.

June

Tourists pass LIC's 5 Pointz in its heyday, before the street art mecca was white-washed in preparation for the building being torn down.

July

We walked the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail and made our way to the dam, one bright hot summer's day.

August

After a lovely day spent at the Voice Tunnel with friends, Sumeet and I went for a long walk from Astoria to Greenpoint. I took this picture just before falling into the East River and breaking my hand.

September

Smoke from the Rim Fire near Yosemite blankets the field in front of my grandparents' house.

October

At Socrates Sculpture Park in LIC, I identified with the deflated soccer ball perhaps a little too much.

November

After a red-eye return from California, the sun rose over a tucked-away cemetery in Queens.

December

We ended the year by heading to India, visiting family and admiring hand-painted signs.