Photography allows people to preserve life’s sweetest memories, bottling them up for later use at family reunions or for sending marooned faces out to sea. Safeguard standout moments with today’s Groupon: for $99, you get a photo shoot, one 8"x10" print, two 5"x7" prints, retouching, and online access from Cucinotta Images in West Reading (a $200 value).

Professional photographer James Cucinotta snaps pictures with a photojournalistic style and creative techniques to transform life’s ephemeral moments into enduring art. During a session, families of up to six, mothers-to-be, babies, and humans who have woken up as bugs relax under Cucinotta's friendly manner to expose long-dormant smiles in the natural light of the great outdoors or the indoor arena of a professional studio. Customers can follow up their session by fawning over images online and perfecting flaws, such as animal transmutations and phantom second heads, through the magic of Cucinotta Images' digital retouching. The favored photo will then materialize as a family of one 8"x10" and twin 5"x7" doppelganger prints.

After years as a serious amateur photographer, James Cucinotta left the confining corporate world in 1995 to practice professional picture taking. His aesthetic talents have taken him around the globe, snapping scintillating shots from Morocco to the Virgin Islands. The studio is open daily, and guests can call or email for an appointment.