And, finally, my last post for #AlphabetHunt challenge by @barbara-orenya. This week we were searching for letters X, Y, Z. Z was an intresting letter to hunt for, look what I've got for it.
Z — Zolotnik
I took a photo of a replica coin I have in my collection (curios to know that I didnt buy it -- I just found it in the middle of a road! Pretty strange to find a gold coin from 1901 on a central road, isnt it?). I added to my photo a dime coin to display the real scale: this appears to be quite a small coin, actually. NB. My collection also includes a Polish coin 'Zloty' -- minted in 1990-es, it contains Zero gold at all.
Z — Zaabar
The 1st photo I used here is 8 years old. Back in 2012 we ordered via internet a box of different Zaabar chocolates, and as you can see, this box was large enough to fit my 3 y.o. babygirl. "If it fits, me sits". Back around the time I obtained my first wide-angle Sigma 12-24mm lens, and had tremendous pleasure of shooting everything around me in wide-angle, just for the sake of itself.
Zaabar is a brand for elite cholocate. Well, at least its premium package design pretending it to be so. I still keep unopened one of those tasty packages. I am a natural HOADLer, hehe.
Z — Zhiguli / Zatecky gus
Alcohol helped me in this round, too! I used its help to fill my post in same way as @txatxy. Above is the bottle of Chech beer 'Zatecky Gus' (well, now it has no beer, and living a rubbish life on the street, but once, in its previous life, it had a beer in it). And the photos below are the famouse Russian beer 'Zhigulevskoe'. A lot of this kind can be seen on the streets. Unfortunately, the locals do not like to see their city clean and shiny...
Z — Zenith
My recent streetphoto: a stranger is sleeping on a bench hugging a beer can. Note his baseball cap with a recognizable 'Zenith' logo; that is the most popular football club of St.Petersburg, and this stranger might be a fan.
Here is an extra entertainment for you: a funny hymn of Zenith football club fans, by a famouse and popular Russian band Leningrad.
Z — Zoolook / Zebra
I remembered about some of my favourite LPs starting from Z (and no, 'Zooropa' by U2 is not one of them). By the way, vinyl could easily go for letter V as well, I havent seen it in any posts -- probably, there aint so many Hiveans obsessed with vynil? I am not one of them too, this image was taken at a records store.
Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook (1983)
Yello - Zebra (1995)
Z — Zydeco
Zydeco is Louisiana Creole dance music. Of course I cant shoot directly the music itself, but I really wanted to educate you with this word and music style. So I am adding a photo of diatonic accordion used on this track, and a beautiful classic Zydeco tune.
All the images taken by me, as always. This round I chose my final wordpicks from a splendid variety of cool stuff that came to my mind, to name a few:
zeal / zealot / zephyr / ziggurat / zincography / zubrowka / zoroastrianism / Roger Zelazny
Those are all good things... but nobody can fit an unfittable, right? Как говорил мой старый наставник-редактор: "Нельзя впихнуть невпихуемое!
Here is an index to all my #AlphabetHunt posts:
A: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/my-jorney-to-the-alfabet-land-a
B: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-b
C: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-c
D: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-d
E: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-e
F: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-f
G: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-g
H: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-h
I: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-i
K: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-k
L: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-day-l
L: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-l-part2
M: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-m
N: https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-n
O: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-o
P: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-p
Q: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-q
R: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-r
S: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-s
T: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-t
T: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-t2
U: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-u
W: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-w
V: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-v
X: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-x
Y: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-y
Z: https://peakd.com/hive-190931/@qwerrie/alphabet-land-z
Mission completed!
Hope you enjoyed travelling with me, and more or less educated yourself in English language, as well. It took a good part of my Hive year, and was a massive fun. I cannot express how many thankyous and good karma I'm sending to @barbara-orenya for running it. But all good things sooner or later come to their end, and the end is always the beginning of something new.