When Athens native Lamon Carson attended Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School as a child in the mid-2000s, entrepreneur Jeff Snowden was invited to teach problem-solving and creativity at the school for a program through the Chamber of Commerce. After he finished speaking, Carson approached him.

“This little boy came up to me and was like, ‘I want to do what you do,’” Snowden said. “And I never shielded these kids from anything, so I was like, ‘Yeah, right you do. Do you know how hard this job is?’”

Years later, when Carson was a teenager, he picked up the phone and called Snowden, to start what would become a powerful friendship.

Andree Terry is in her element. She picks up a bar of soap and with a knife, quickly shaves the soap’s edges before placing it aside.

The essence of the room can be captured in whiffs: a hint of lemon here, a slight note of ginger there. The rhythmic sounds of blade on soap are constant and Terry works to her own beat.

Like a machine, Terry grabs soap after soap, smoothing all edges. Sunlight streams in through the window, making the knife gleam. Terry continues to perfect her soaps, almost nonchalantly, but every slice is done with purpose.

For most of the year, the drone of bees fills in the air as the insects’ buzzing is a constant hum. Honey bees are active from spring to fall and during that time, thousands of bees work tirelessly to collect pollen and nectar to produce honey. As winter nears, the bees’ excited buzzing fades to silence. For local beekeepers, winter is a time not to produce honey for consumer consumption, but a time for preparation for the spring.

Every year, the University of Georgia welcomes new students and faculty with open arms, and commends others on the next step of their journey, outside the realm of bulldog nation. Though the college is always greeting the next generation of faculty, saying goodbye to professors who have been with UGA for upwards of 30 years is never an easy task.

From an underground sketch comedy show to their own animated, adult cartoon on Comedy Central, Waco O’Guin and Roger Black have been making waves in the comedy scene since they were students at the University of Georgia.

O’Guin and Black got their start with “The Damn! Show,” a sketch comedy show with dirty humor and hilarious antics. They performed a sold-out show in 2001 at the Georgia Theatre and things took off from there.

About a decade later, the two began working on “Brickleberry,” an animated series about “politically incorrect” park rangers. The show’s title is named after Brickleberry Ridge on the East Side of Athens, intersecting Whit Davis Road.

With long, yellow nails that match a gold nose ring, Xayla Wilson applies a creamy brown foundation to her skin with a sponge.

“Most of my makeup shots I take on my own. I actually have two bedrooms and one of my rooms is literally dedicated to me doing my makeup,” she said.

The sun reflects off the many products she has in her makeup bag as Wilson studies her own reflection in a travel mirror.

“It’s pretty extravagant,” she said, adding a layer of sparkling highlight to her cheekbones.

Filtered light from the sunset streams through Jen Cole’s open-air back porch as dusk begins to settle. She stands over her workspace, arranging individual leaves in a pattern atop a piece of fabric until she eventually rolls the fabric into a cylinder and binds it with thread. In a week or two, the cloth will ultimately become a stunning piece of clothing.