Professional Services in Gloucester City

Upgrade the framed family photos that have been hanging in your parents’ home for the past 600 years. With today's Groupon to ADC Photography, $20 gets you an in-studio session (a $150 value) and an 8x10 print (a $65 value), plus 25% off any additional a la carte prints (discount not valid for collections). Now that you aren’t riddled with acne or plagued with a six-year-old’s gummy smile, split the cost with your sibs and surprise your folks with a more up-to-date snapshot just in time for the holidays.In 1978, amateur bat photographer Gregory Hansen was in his front yard one night when a mysterious white orb appeared in the sky over his home. Diverting his attention from a particularly active nest of eptesicus fuscus, he began photographing the orb, which made no attempt to flee or conceal itself. Hansen continued to document the orb as it reappeared over his house, each night shrinking slightly “as though passing slowly into the spirit world,” Hansen observed. On particularly cloudy nights, the orb would not be present, prompting Hansen to speculate that ghosts may be allergic to thunder.

Get a picture that will forever preserve your nubile physique and uncanny resemblance to a certain pop star with today's Groupon to Crane Photography. For $50, you'll get a two-to-three-hour outdoor photo shoot or studio portrait session, a $150 value. You'll also get an 8"x10" print and an opportunity to order additional prints for 25% off normal print pricing. (See "Investment" on the website for print prices). Your photographer will travel within a 40-mile radius of Medford, NJ, in a refrigerator with wheels; locations outside the radius will incur an additional $50 fee per 30 extra minutes of driving each way.

PhotoLounge's team of experts will keep the process simple, so you can indulge your creativity to its fullest. You'll have your choice of five exclusive CAMEO Style cover designs (including a window option), all of which were made in Rhode Island by a classic New England bindery. Each page fits between one and four photos, so your 10-page book can hold up to 40 pictures. You can also insert personalized captions on each page and cover page, so that you won't forget which of your kids is which. Besides being made out of archival-quality pages, covers, and glues, your photo book will be post-bound and expandable, so you can add as many pages as you like, whenever you want (additional pages $1.50 each). Look here for a demonstration of the personalized process of creating the photo book.

Creative Photography by Maya's staff of professional shutterbugs will happily accommodate families, children, families of children, pets, and triumphantly posed statues during the in-studio photo session. The fully equipped studio provides several backgrounds from which to choose. The classic white can be used for a quick passport photo before the entire fam poses for a heartwarming family scene around the Christmas tree in the Christmas Morning backdrop. Likewise, graduates, high-school seniors, newlyweds, and soonlyweds can beam sunnily before a Garden View, Perfect Sky, or slightly less popular Ragnarök backdrop. There are even huge plastic crayons and other foreground props for your giant pet scorpion to wave around as the cameras flash. After your session, you'll receive a DVD containing full-resolution versions of all photos and a photo-release form enabling you to print, publish, and share them.

Parker's Flowers has been catering to the romantic, congratulatory, sympathetic, apologetic, "just because," and seasonal-affective whims of Burlington County for more than 75 years. Whatever the occasion, be it birthday, boss, or baby related, Parker's will passionately provide you with the proper petals pronto. In addition to classically vibrant floral arrangements such as the Cherish Spring ($55–$75), Perfect Love ($75–$100), and Here Comes the Sun ($40–$50) bouquets, Parker's offers modern and tropical designs, fruity and fulfilling gift baskets, and a wide range of unique house plants and orchids.

With half a century in the flower business, Belvedere has the blossoms to mark all occasions, be they joyous, somber, or rife with romantic mixed signals. Keep it timeless when thanking your mechanic with a dozen variety-colored roses ($35), well-wish with the Best Medicine bundle ($85) of bright lilies, hydrangea, and gerbera daisies, or mark the summer season with the Sunny Skies arrangement ($55–$85)—a floral quiver of sunflowers, red roses, and pale-blue delphinium. If your true love isn't a sheep and can't eat flowers, try a fruit basket instead: the entry-level Fruitful Fancies ($55) ties up a bevy of seasonal fruits in a cute, ribboned package. And for longer-lasting lovely, pick up a whole blooming plant, such as a darling pairing of African violets ($25) planted in a shaped basket of living moss.