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Benj
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Florida man in Baku. Travels and sails. Student for life and teaches social science. Reads about business and history. Enjoys comics and death metal.
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More of a cat person.
Hello, Doha! Swanky hotel? Oh, yes. 🇶🇦 #indoors #travel #photograph #qatar
January 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
At Heydar Aliyev Airport. Leaving Baku again for a week on work. Destination: Doha, Qatar.
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Soviet mural in downtown Baku, #Azerbaijan. The mural commemorates "The Great Patriotic War," a different take on World War II.
January 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
After-school and overcast in Baku. #azerbaijan #school #football #cityscape
January 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I greatly appreciated the street art in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lamb's work could be found throughout the city back in 2017.
#travel #georgia #streetart
January 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A friend was looking for a deal on an Azerbaijani carpet. I tell her, every carpet seller I've met is happy to cut a deal. Everyone gets a "friend price."

That song and dance is all part of the game. I admire the dishonesty built into the tradition.
January 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
More quaint warnings from the the 1990s #punk and #hardcore scene.

I found this one in Reversal of Man's (1998) "Revolution Summer."

The entire insert booklet for this 10" is a work of art. It uses the old zine methods of copy editing.
January 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Tucked inside Catharsis's double-LP "Samsara" (1998), I found this insert promoting an indie publisher.

Feels so quaint these days. #hardcore #music #indie #punk
January 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
As I approached my front door, I heard the Mars Volta coming from inside the apartment. I then walked into a cosmic light show. #unexpected #psychedelic
January 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
After completing the shorebased course last month, I received my RYA Coastal Skipper & Yachmaster Offshore certificate today. Looking forward to applying those skills this spring. ⛵ #accomplishment
January 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My Master of Science in Business Analytics officially kicks off this week. #quantic #business #analytics #lifelonglearner #stoked
January 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Early Sunday afternoon near Fountain Square Baku. #Azerbaijan #photos #trees #architecture #winter
January 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Good morning, Baku. #Azerbaijan #photograph #skyline
January 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The view from below inside the Istanbul Airport. #travel #architecture
January 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I-guana wish you the happiest of New Years! 🎉
#Florida #nature #wildlife
January 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A walk through a familiar neighborhood seven years ago. I always look forward to revisiting this street. #BoyntonBeachFL #travel #sunset
December 31, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Lunchtime view of the Intracoastal in #BoyntonBeachFL.
December 31, 2024 at 7:03 PM
The city boasts the largest mosque in Central Asia. The promanade featured kiosks shaped like yurts.
December 30, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Earlier this year, I visited Astana, Kazakhstan. The skyline was breathtaking.
#travel #Kazakhstan #architecture
December 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Hard to believe in a time when South Florida public schools were built on the beach. Yet, in the 1930s, that's where the community developed Boynton High School.

Images courtesy of the Boynton Beach Historical Society. www.boyntonhistory.org/boynton-high... #BoyntonBeachFL #history #education
December 29, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Nearly thirty years later, I still have an affinity for Casio calculator watches.
December 28, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Another closet rummage discovery. In high school, I was fortunate to take a photography class. In the mid-1990s, this class would have predated the ubiquity of digital photography. My parents had kept my portfolio and classwork.

We were assigned to take selfies before they were called that.
December 28, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Development along the Intracoastal Waterway of Pompano Beach, FL, 2012 and 1989 with 2015 map.
December 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Other finds from my parents' closets: LPs. Let me say, Jethro Tull's turned packaging into an art. We're talking watercolor paintings, pop-up gatefolds, and a newspaper complete with help wanted ads, cartoons, a crossword puzzle, etc. #vinyl
December 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Whenever I visit Florida, I take advantage of walks before dawn. #BoyntonBeachFL
December 27, 2024 at 3:07 PM