A picture is worth a thousand words, making photographs and stick-figure sketches the easiest solutions to looming dissertation deadlines. Take advantage of efficient visual-communication strategies with today’s Groupon to Amber Holt Photography in Airdrie. Choose between the following options:

• For $60, you get a one-hour portrait session and an 8"x10" print (a $125 value).
• For $225, you get a newborn, child, family, or maternity photography package, including prints and a CD of images (up to a $450 value).

Photographer Amber Holt snaps artful portraits that capture the individual personalities of kids, families, and expectant moms. Up to six subjects strike poses in one-hour portrait sessions, which can take place indoors, amid the studio's bounty of props and backdrops, or outside, next to majestic oaks or noble garden gnomes. Afterward, clients get an 8"x10" print of their favourite shot. Photography packages provide a wider array of images culled from sessions lasting up to three hours with newborns (a $450 value), children (a $400 value), families of up to six people (a $450 value), or mothers-to-be (a $400 value). Clients can then adorn mantels, albums, and hard drives with one 8"x10" print, two 5"x7" prints, and six 4"x6" prints, as well as a CD containing 15–20 images and a medley of death-metal Gregorian chants.