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brussel's kiss


brussel's kiss
Photo Information
Copyright: natalia daraiche (maroucia) (182)
Genre: Places
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2004-06-19
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Minolta Dimage 7Hi, 28 - 200mm
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/180 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2004-08-05 16:03
Viewed: 908
Points: 13
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
If you meet the local person(s) for the first time, esp. in formal situations, shaking hands is the rule. After some time of acquaintance, Belgians kiss on the cheeks to greet each other. Even some men tend to do so (not all of them are used to it).

In Brussels and Wallonia, one uses to give a kiss on a cheek (your right cheek) whilst, in Flanders, people give three kisses each other.
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  • blu Silver Star Critiquer [C: 10 W: 4 N: 6] (561)
  • [2004-08-05 16:47]

nice photo! it's always exciting and sometimes weird if you get hooked up because you want to give a kiss to mucxh or to less! In Switzerland its three (in the German part...)! I think its 2 in the French part.

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  • Quark Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 1339 W: 10 N: 29] (66)
  • [2004-08-05 16:58]

Well, Natalia, this is a really interesting and very funny note, just as the picture, images on the wall and a foreground of the table and chairs in B/W, together they are fantastic ! Well done, thank you....

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  • Dingo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2744 W: 369 N: 2624] (11948)
  • [2004-08-05 17:11]

Nice observation, Natalia, and true. Being Flemish myself I can only confirm that this is a habit. As for me, I kiss only women ;P.
Just one tiny remark about this picture: you should have straightened it, since it is rotated ccw. Also the top could have been cropped a bit more.
But I very much like the way you illustrated the note with this shot. Well done, TFS.

Very good picture. The table and chair adds realism to the shot. I really like it.

very nice!
like the b/w,but i would have cropped the pic a bit more.
like the table and 2 chaires.
as i'm being flemish, we idd kiss 3 times on the cheeck.
nice note.

great photo... i like the ambiance and the compo... brussels is such a nice city... a lot of places to kiss !!! :)
well done...
kiss....

hey
i'd love to come to belgium and meet women heheh
not kidding :)
in the thumbnail it looked as if someone was standing on a table and the other balancing on the edge of a th echair's back rest
anyway i think this is a great was of showing us a custom in your country
thank you :)
take care

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