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Photography has progressed exponentially over the past century with the development of digital cameras, faster shutter speeds, and smiling. Capture the latest trends of emotional technology with today’s Groupon: for $59, you get a one-hour outdoor photo shoot from Life Street Photography, located in Surrey (a $165 total value). The shoot includes:

• On-location photography at one pre-selected location in the lower mainland (a $100 value). Available locations include:

  • Bear Creek Park in Surrey
  • Campbell Valley Park in Langley
  • Crescent Beach in South Surrey
  • Deas Island Park in Delta
  • Sendall Gardens in Langley
  • Stanley Park in Vancouver
  • Tynehead Park in Surrey
  • White Rock Beach in White Rock

• One 4″x6″ print (a $15 value)

• Two 8″x10″ prints (a $50 value)

Life Street Photography’s team of shutterbugs, Helen Edwards and her husband Dave, use their years of image-capturing experience to craft dreamy, naturally lit portraits. Before venturing out-of-doors, clients confer with Helen about the shoot and get tips on what to wear and how to coordinate colours so trees don’t show up wearing the same ensemble. The one-hour alfresco photo shoot allows posers to strike a series of smiles in their choice of one of eight scenic parks and beaches around the lower mainland. During the snapping session, Helen deftly harnesses natural light while balancing shadows in each shot to keep attention-hungry silhouettes from sabotaging shots. Once the full spectrum of sitters’ emotions has been committed to pixel form, Helen and Dave slip all stills into a password-protected online album for clients to peruse. The winning likeness, chosen by the client from an album of options, gets transformed into one 4″x6″ print and two 8″x10″ prints perfect for displaying in frames or transforming into wallpaper. As an added bonus, picture-getters receive 10% off the purchase of any additional prints. Clients can peruse Life Street Photography’s online tips to get grins camera-ready.

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From infancy, skin is tasked with protecting the body against summer’s heat, winter’s cold, and Grandmother’s pinch. Keep your outer layer looking awesome with today’s Groupon to pHresh Spa and Wellness Club, located inside Sandman Suites Hotel. Choose between the following options:

• For $85, you get a two-hour Total Escape spa package for one person (a $175 value).
• For $159, you get a two-hour Total Escape spa package for two people (a $325 value).

The Total Escape spa package includes:

• 50-minute relaxation massage
• Express facial
• 30-minute infrared sauna treatment
• Foot treatment with massage

Amid soothing blue walls dappled with vibrant lime-green accents, pHresh Spa and Wellness Club’s experienced spa therapists rejuvenate and restore radiance to weary bodies via the Total Escape package’s quartet of spa treatments. Patrons jazz-square into the private sauna, whose balmy wood confines envelop guests in sweat-inducing infrared waves. Over the course of one 30-minute session, sitters can torch up to 600 calories as their bodies package subcutaneous toxins and impurities into beads of soon-to-be-expelled perspiration. Once pernicious particulates have been cast out of systems, physiques sore from boxing confrontational shadows revel in ache-erasing kneads and soothing oils employed during a 50-minute relaxation massage. A cleansing express facial infuses smile machines with moisture and ferries away dry, dead skin cells, rendering visages smoother than a freshly shaven bowling ball. To conclude the day’s pampering, paw experts lavish toes with a foot treatment that includes a soothing massage complemented by the warm embrace of hot towels.

Though not available immediately before or after treatments, face owners can also shower and steam or relax in a lounge distinguished by cushy couches, modern decor, and a fireplace complete with a retired game-show host reclining alongside the crackling wood.

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Until mankind first stepped outside in 1934, nature was thought to be a fanciful myth, like yogourt or the clutch hitter. Frolic through the fresh air of truth with today’s Groupon: for $475, you get a two-night horseback-riding getaway for two at Tod Mountain Ranch in Heffley Creek (up to a $950 value). Horseback-riding getaways include the following:

• A two-night stay in a luxury cabin with two twin beds or one queen bed and a private bathroom
• Four to five hours of horseback riding for two
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (starting with dinner on night of arrival)

With trails running through 30,000 hectares of mountain trails and forest, Tod Mountain Ranch swathes guests in comfortable, contemporary accommodations while granting a western frontier experience. Settle in with a two-night stay in the dude ranch’s amber-lit guest cabins, each outfitted with private bathrooms, a small fridge, and log furnishings carved by a local Sasquatch. The ranch’s resident Red Seal–certified chef satiates stomachs with meals made from scratch using locally sourced, seasonal produce. Noshers can nestle into the cozy dining room to partake in hearty family-style breakfasts and three-course dinners, and culinary wizards can prepare picnic lunches upon request for those engaged in alfresco pursuits. After a day spent tracking the migratory patterns of snow angels, weary wayfarers retreat to the 3,000-square-foot lodge. There, guests can gawk at Louis Creek Valley from the lodge’s floor to ceiling windows or recline on the wrap-around covered porch. Free WiFi invisibly inhabits the premises, like a ghost who knows everything.

At the start of the day’s equine activities, the ranch’s experienced wranglers pair each guest with an affable and strong trail horse specially selected based on the rider’s experience, personality, and favourite My Little Pony character. Experienced staff imparts their riding and horsemanship savvy upon steed riders to ensure that every participant is armed with sufficient horse-piloting skills for the impending outing. Once snuggled in their saddles, groups of adventurers set off for a ride on surrounding scenic trails that wend along tranquil logging roads or up steep alpine surrounds. Guests can foray into the world of centaur impersonation with two rides to ensure that no vista goes unseen. Tod Mountain Ranch supplies riders with helmets and riding boots should they be required.

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Mud is incredibly versatile, nourishing bodies during skin-softening treatments and acting as emergency pants on laundry day. Wear your skin-perfecting secrets as your sleeve with today’s Groupon: for $59, you get an aromatherapy mud wrap at Antiquity Day Spa and Salon in Port Coquitlam (a $125 value).

The licensed aestheticians at Antiquity Day Spa and Salon soothe guests with aromatherapeutic mud wraps in tranquil, private rooms. A salt glow exfoliation begins the one-hour treatment, sloughing off dead cells and revealing skin as smooth as Poseidon’s favourite skipping stone. Aestheticians coat corporeal planes in a therapeutic mud imported from France in addition to essential oils to please noses and calm minds. As the nutritive minerals from the earthy armour sink into skin, guests can admire the spa’s jewel-toned walls and curtains made from ornate upholstery. Once the mud releases its gentle grip from arms and ankles, an aesthetician hydrates skin with an aromatic body moisturizer and optional Gatorade and high-fives.

Though Antiquity Day Spa and Salon sometimes features a discounted price online, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.

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Mediterranean civilizations invented many lasting concepts, developing astronomy to explain the cosmos and democracy to equally divide lamb kebabs. Split a skewer with today’s Groupon: for $14, you get $28 worth of Mediterranean-inspired fare at Avenue Grill Restaurant.

The neon sign outside Avenue Grill Restaurant, a Kerrisdale neighbourhood staple since 1927, beckons appetites to sample seafood and pasta dishes featuring distinctive Mediterranean flavours. Meals can commence with duelling appetizers of bruschetta ($7) and caprese salad, where bocconcini cheese teams with tomato to form a stacked pedestal over which miniature helicopters fly to deliver drizzlings of tangy balsamic vinaigrette ($8). Eight traditional pasta dishes take form in such shapes as the anchovy-sprinkled puttanesca linguine ($17). Chefs plate crispy morsels of duck confit ($19) and ladle a vegetable ragout over braised lamb shanks in a traditional osso buco ($19). Tiramisu ($6) or crème brûlée serve as sweet codas, which customers savour while surrounded by local art in the dining room. On Sunday evenings Hemant Rao performs live guitar music to enhance dinners with smooth, six-string melodies and authentic Gene Simmons face paint.

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