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: for $65, you get a beach photoshoot and a $100 credit toward retouching and prints from Betsy Snow, Photographic Artist (a $275 value).

Betsy Snow's technical savvy and eye for immortalizing life’s milestones has helped garner her the Florida Degree of Photographic Excellence. During a design consultation, the photographer discusses artistic details with clients before etch-a-sketching a rendezvous point for a one-hour beachside photoshoot. The photographer’s superior understanding of light and mastery of telling up from down allows for softly lit shots amid heaving waves and pastel-tinted skies. After the session, portrait sitters can apply a $100 print credit toward retouched printing in a variety of sizes, including an 8”x10" in an easel-back folder ($95) or a set of four 4”x5" prints of a single image ($125). Future frame dwellers can take comfort in Ms. Snow's promise to redo portraits sessions if customers’ expectations are not satisfied.