An engagement is one of the most significant milestones in a couple’s journey together. It marks the beginning of a lifetime of shared memories and dreams. At Pictours Lisbon, we understand the importance of preserving these precious moments in a way that is both beautiful and timeless. Our engagement photography services are designed to capture the essence of your love story against the stunning backdrops of Lisbon, a city rich in history, culture, and breathtaking scenery. In this article, we will explore the unique aspects of our engagement photography services, the enchanting locations we offer, and why Pictours Lisbon is the perfect choice to document your engagement.
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The Essence of Engagement Photography

Engagement photography goes beyond simply taking pictures; it’s about telling a story. It’s about capturing the genuine emotions, the intimate glances, and the joyful laughter that define your relationship. At Pictours Lisbon, we believe that every couple has a unique story, and our goal is to reflect that individuality through our photography. Our approach combines creativity, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of the art of storytelling to create images that are both meaningful and visually stunning.

Why Choose Pictours Lisbon?

1. Experienced Photographers: Our team consists of highly skilled photographers who have years of experience in engagement photography. They are adept at capturing the perfect moments and have an eye for detail that ensures every shot is impeccable.
2. Personalized Service: We understand that every couple is unique, and so are their needs and preferences. We offer personalized consultations to understand your vision, style, and any specific requirements you may have. This ensures that the final images truly reflect your personality and relationship.
3. Stunning Locations: Lisbon offers a myriad of picturesque locations that are perfect for engagement photos. Whether you prefer the historic charm of Alfama, the modern architecture of Parque das Nações, or the romantic ambiance of Belém, we can recommend the perfect spots that align with your vision.
4. Creative and Artistic Approach: Our photographers are not just technicians; they are artists who bring a creative flair to every shoot. They use innovative techniques and compositions to create images that are not only beautiful but also tell a compelling story.
5. High-Quality Equipment: We use state-of-the-art photography equipment to ensure that every image is of the highest quality. This includes high-resolution cameras, professional lighting, and advanced editing software to enhance the final results.

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Iconic Lisbon Locations for Engagement Photography

Lisbon, with its blend of old-world charm and modern vibrancy, offers an array of stunning locations that are perfect for capturing the magic of your engagement. Here are some of our favorite spots:

1. Alfama: This historic district, with its narrow, winding streets and colorful buildings, provides a romantic and nostalgic backdrop. The views from the São Jorge Castle are breathtaking, offering a panoramic vista of the city.
2. Belém: Known for its iconic landmarks like the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, this area exudes a regal and timeless charm. The beautifully landscaped gardens and the riverside views add to its allure.
3. Parque das Nações: For a more contemporary feel, this modern district boasts impressive architecture and beautiful waterfront views. The Vasco da Gama Bridge and the Oceanarium provide striking backdrops for unique and stylish photos.
4. Sintra: Just a short drive from Lisbon, Sintra is a fairy-tale town with its enchanting palaces and lush gardens. The Pena Palace and Quinta da Regaleira are particularly popular for their dreamy and romantic settings.
5. Cascais: This coastal town offers stunning beaches and scenic cliffs, perfect for capturing romantic seaside shots. The vibrant town center with its charming streets adds to its appeal.

The Pictours Lisbon Experience

Booking an engagement photography session with Pictours Lisbon is more than just a photo shoot; it’s an experience. Here’s what you can expect:

1. Consultation: We start with a detailed consultation to understand your vision, preferences, and any specific ideas you have. This helps us tailor the session to your unique needs.
2. Planning: Based on the consultation, we help you choose the best locations and suggest the ideal time of day for the shoot to ensure the best lighting and conditions.
3. Photo Shoot: On the day of the shoot, our friendly and professional photographers will guide you through the process, making you feel comfortable and relaxed. They will capture both posed and candid moments to ensure a variety of beautiful images.
4. Editing: After the shoot, our skilled editors will enhance the images to ensure they are perfect. This includes color correction, retouching, and any other adjustments needed to make your photos shine.
5. Delivery: You will receive a curated selection of high-resolution images, delivered digitally for easy access and sharing. We also offer printing services if you wish to have physical copies of your photos.

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Conclusion

At Pictours Lisbon, we are passionate about capturing the beauty and essence of your engagement. Our commitment to quality, creativity, and personalized service ensures that your engagement photos will be cherished memories for years to come. Let us help you celebrate this special moment in your life with stunning images that reflect your unique love story. Contact Pictours Lisbon today to book your engagement photography session and start your journey towards creating timeless memories in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

South Central Texas. Sorry about the poor photo quality. I tried to get a clear pictures as possible, but they still seem pretty bad to me lol.
This guy just chills I'm my bedroom and really likes the lamp light. I can't seem to identify it based off of common spiders in the area.

Garrido Canabal had controlled the state of Tabasco with an iron first since 1919, carrying out a ferocious anticlerical campaign through his Red Shirts militia, and incentivizing social development in various ways.
He sought to improve the quality and variety of agriculture, and gave women the right to vote, generalized public education, and outlawed alcohol and tombstones, playing an important role in suppressing the Cristero revolt, due to his hatred of religion.
In 1934, "Maximum Chief of the Mexican Revolution" Plutarco Elias Calles, who had controlled the country through a series of puppet presidents since 1929, chose Garrido Canabal as his sucessor due to his loyalty to Calles and hope he would continue his anticlerical policies. Garrido Canabal soon met Calles at the Chapultepec Castle, and agreed to run for president, promising to carry out the Mexican Revolution's ideals "to their utmost degree".
Garrido Canabal, a Bolshevik, Marxist and Leninist (albeit not a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist), sought the endorsement of the Revolutionary Confederation of Independent Parties, Socialist Parties of the Left, and the Mexican Communist Party (PCM), all of whom formed the United Front of the Mexican Revolution (FURM), which ruled Mexico for decades afterwards as a socialism one-party state.
The Red Shirts violently attacked political opponents and religious believers during the election campaign, killing, torturing and humiliating thousands of people across Mexico, behaving like a fascist militia in spite of their communist views. With all political parties united behind Garrido Canabal, he was elected with 100% of the vote, and took office on 1 December 1934, with a cabinet mostly chosen by Calles.
Garrido Canabal ruled Mexico until his death in 1958, turning it into an industrial economy, albeit with a major cost to its people and civil and religious liberties. He is a controversial figure in present-day Mexico.
After taking power in 1934, Tomás Garrido Canabal transformed the Red Shirts into Mexico's secret police, perhaps modeled after the Blackshirts and SA. They were also to serve as a reserve militia during wartime.
In 1937, the United States declared war on and invaded Mexico in order to overthrow its communist regime before it could spread to the rest of Latin America, and Red Shirt divisions played a role in the Mexican resistance, which eventually led to an American withdrawal in 1940, followed by its recognition of Garrido's government in exchange for a nonaggression pact with the United States.
During the mid-1930s and early 1940s, the Red Shirts violently targeted religion across Mexico, killing priests and lay clergy, raping nuns, staging plays mocking religion, destroying religious icons and dumping them into lakes and rivers, and overseeing the implementation of Rationalist education, a model which denied the soul and human spirituality existed, and remained in effect until the fall of the Communist regime. By 1950, religious worship had all but disappeared from Mexico, and all citizens were counted as atheists for statistical purposes. Despite its ideological iconoclasm, historical monuments were left relatively undamaged by the Red Shirts; to Garrido's regime, like its predecessors, the Aztec empire was a key point of reference.
After the invasion failed, Garridist policies targeting religion and industrializing Mexico with oil funding continued unabated, and although religious persecution was toned down after WWII, there was no change to the regime's basic character. The Red Shirt secret police chief, who ruthlessly crushed any opposition to Garrido Canabal's policies, was the second most powerful man in Mexico and administered large parts of the Mexican state until Garrido Canabal purged him in 1956.
Women were barred from Red Shirt positions above the state level, as the communist regime's leadership was heavily masculine and militarist, developing a powerful military-industrial complex and, in 1960, the nuclear bomb.
After Garrido Canabal died in 1958, his sucessor, a Khrushchevite Marxist-Leninist without fascist influence, disbanded the Red Shirts and replaced them with a Mexican version of the KGB.
Calles expected Garrido Canabal to be his puppet, but the new president, a totalitarian puritan in spite of his violent atheism, eventually purged the Callistas, closed their brothels and casinos, and replaced them with loyal Garridistas.
The brothels were turned into hospitals and the casinos into schools, while the Red Shirts sentenced prostitutes into "redemption through labour" in state-owned factories and systematically executed pimps. In 1937, Garrido Canabal introduced alcohol prohibition into Mexico, four years after its repeal in the US, but revoked it in 1942 due to the same negative outcomes happening down south.
In 1936, PEMEX was founded as a state-owned company with a monopoly on the production, refinement and distribution of oil, with the property of foreign oil companies being expropriated without compensation. This led to substantial tensions between Mexico and the US, and Garrido Canabal stationed two infantry corps near the northern border to defend the country against an American invasion. He also began a military buildup, purchasing weapons from the Soviet Union, Denmark and Czechoslovakia and seeking to develop a national armaments industry.
The ferocious religious persecution previously seen in Tabasco extended to all of Mexico. The Red Shirts carried out large-scale violence against priests, lay clergy and landowners, who faced torture, murder and humiliation for their beliefs and social class. One of the President's first acts after coming to power was introducing Rationalist education to all Mexican schools, massively broadening public education, and abolishing private education. At the same time, Garrido Canabal began a cult of personality; his ideological writings were published on a large-scale, the government wrote songs and plays about him, and his portraits shaped public buildings and were carried by the Red Shirts in military parades.
In 1936, Garrido Canabal launched the first of Mexico's Five-Year Plans, taking the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plans as a model and focusing on education, healthcare, electricity, transportation and alimentation; however, during the American invasion, the plan's funding was redirected to the military. After the United States withdrawal, industrialisation continued as Mexico supplied oil to the Allies.
The main reason for the war was that the United States did not want a socialist state in their backyard, and they had supported anti-communist resistance groups before sending an ultimatum.
The invasion force marching from California was commanded by George S. Patton, and the one from Texas by Douglas MacArthur, both of whom were staunch anti-communists, and the landing in Mérida was under the command of Roy S. Geiger.
After Garrido took office, Mexico bought weapons and ammunition from the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark, including 6 T-26 and 11 AH-IV tanks, 22 Poliparkov I-16 fighter planes, 200,000 vz.24 rifles, and 15,000 Madsen machine guns, meaning that the M1 Combat Cars deployed by the US Army were outgunned in battles fought on the desert. Minister of War Lázaro Cárdenas played an important role in beginning the mechanization of the Mexican Army, a process finished by 1960.
The furthest south in Mexico the two main invasion forces advanced was Ciudad Victoria in the state of Tamaulipas, although much of coastal Sinaloa also fell to the Americans and their UNS allies. After the war, their insurgency continued until 1953, Nazi Germany having collapsed in 1949 as the Eastern Front froze and they failed to capture the Caucasus' oil fields, carry out Operation Sea Lion, and suppress partisan activity.
The National Synarchist Union rose up against the Mexican Socialist Republic and its atheism on 18 July 1937, with 53,000 insurgents being involved in the original revolt. The Mexican General Staff refused to redirect its forces to fight the UNS, resulting in them capturing a large swath of heavily Catholic territory by 1938, although their territorial gains were rolled back beginning in October of that year, and the burden of defeating the Communists increasingly fell on the US.
As Mexico's situation improved, it increasingly obtained support from the Comintern. Artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo made works depicting the Mexican resistance, and a group of international volunteers totalling 15,000 and hailing from Brazil, Argentina, France, Italy and Germany was formed and fought relatively well. The Soviet Union tried to provide further aid, but was unable to do so due to a naval blockade of Mexican ports; nevertheless, the war led to a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that resulted in America not supporting the Soviets or opening a second front after the Nazi invasion.
The Red Shirts, a Mexican paramilitary group founded by Tomás Garrido Canabal in 1931, also took part in the war, just like the Blackshirts had participated in the invasion of Ethiopia and the SS in Germany's military campaigns. The Axis Powers remained neutral in the conflict, as neither side was to their liking.
After 1938, Mexico pushed back, launching a successful counteroffensive, Operation Juarez, between May and September of that year, and dealing increasing casualties and territorial losses to the United States over the next year. The Mexican Navy, while small, increasingly attempted to break the blockade, although they were only successful starting in late 1939, when it was increasingly clear the United States had lost.
The Mexican victory made Garrido be recognized as the greatest man in the continent, and the second most well known communist in the world, behind Stalin. Mexican influence over Central America and the Caribbean increased remarkably with its defeat of the strongest economy in the world, leading to the overthrow of authoritarian regimes in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and their replacement by Mexican satellite states, and the consolidation of Mexico's totalitarian government.

So today was a light but scary day. Yesterday I driven for 22 hours so I'd have extra time to spend with my grandfather as he's very ill and in blairsville Georgia. I had not originally planned to make the stop on this trip but he fell ill right before I was plain to leave. But no worries I thought there's tons of chargers in this area and I should be fine. We stopped for lunch near the local charger, but was not working as it had been turned off for the day. My parents place was not able to charge my vehicle either after a busted pipe soaked there garage. So I had about 85 mile to reach the closest charger, but hey it's only 55 mile away I should be fine.
So Charles and I set out with no AC on cus I am paranoid we will not make it. For the first 25 miles it's essentially flat or slightly downhill so we're doing fine. And then we come to our first mountain, and we start climbing. And quickly I see that I am using enough juice that I may not make it. In fact I'm only getting 2 miles per kilowatt and dropping. The photo attached to this post was taken at what I did not know it was the top of the mountain. We had gone from 46 milws down to 32 in less than a mile getting close to the peak. And the battery had turned orange.
Oh did I mention that my cell service was out in this area as well so if I gotten stranded I was really going to be stranded.
Luckily like I said this photo was taken at the top of the peak. Before we hit the bottom of the mountain I had nearly 43 mile left on my battery. And we costed into the charger with about 10 left.
We use the Duke energy EVgo chargers, and the QR codes and this chargers send you to a non-American version of their charging app which will not work in America. luckily I was smart enough to go ahead and search the Google Play store and found the right one anyway because you cannot charge on at this station without the app which is great when you're in a rural mountain area with very poor cell service.
Luckily after this charge the rest of that part of the trip went smooth and we arrived at are next overnight stop 300 miles later at around 8:30.
Tomorrow will be the the final day of our trip. With only 211 imperial miles to go.

Hello internet geniuses, As you can see by the photo I am doing something rather silly, but to do so with the utmost precision I need your help. I have a geo for the terrain, as well as a geo for the void in the hole (the initial water shape) as I assume that would be useful. I want the water to realistically slosh on all the edges of the pond, but I don’t see any options to make a tank that isn’t a plain old rectangle. Should I just use the terrain as a collider and start by blasting all flip particles that don’t intersect with my initial water shape geo? Is there a better or more efficient way to do this? Any tips or comments would be much appreciated. Thanks!!!!