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 photo session (an $80 value), an 11’’x14’’ print (a $50 value), eight wallet-size prints (a $10 value), and a complimentary CD of 20–30 watermarked digital images for online sharing (a $140 total value) from Krystal Shuga Photography, valid within 40 miles of the greater Rockford area.

Krystal Shuga vividly commits memories to film amid idyllic natural environments or comfortable indoor settings using only natural light. Krystal’s lens leaps across the locale of your choosing as posers move through a medley of outfits and mug shots at a nearby park, shoreline, home, or decommissioned naval warship. Flaunt a baby bump against the backdrop of the nearest pastoral paradise, or gather tots for a playful session in which Krystal coaxes smiles by playing games, singing songs, or reciting the U.S. Tax Code in pig Latin.

After 30 minutes–2.5 hours, depending on how elaborate the shoot is, Krystal will upload the results to a CD that lets proud parents and happy couples broadcast 20–30 watermarked images across the internet with ease. Subjects seeking tangible proof of their actuality can frame an 11’’x14’’ print and flip through eight wallet-size prints of the same pose, ready for pickup about three weeks after the shoot.