During the photojournalism workshops, I tend to forget to go see things. One of my many regulars, Billy Weeks, makes sure to drag me out of our editing space.

Alas, he wasn’t with us this weekend and I waited way too late to get out, just as it started to rain and the fair was winding down for the evening.

The kids, though … they had a great day, photo blogging for the Macon Telegraph.

Time for the fall photojournalism workshop, our fourth year at the Georgia National Fair.

For the record, this is the 25th workshop I’ve organized for the kids since coming to the University of Georgia in 2005. Egads.

A little scouting for the next rally … November 18, pencil it in.

Every year, Caroline Rault from Rosco comes to visit my class to talk about color and light. And every year she brings M&Ms and freaks out the kids … it’s awesome.

Signs seen in town this morning.

That late afternoon light again.

The primary reason for our trip this weekend was to see President Jimmy Carter, who still teaches Sunday School lessons at Marantha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.

When we scheduled this trip, we didn’t catch that today was his 93rd birthday. Expecting large crowds, we were at the church a little after 5 a.m., the lesson didn’t start until 10 with a service afterwards at 11.

It was totally worth it. A colleague had told me she felt this was the best thing her family had done since they moved to Georgia five years ago.

She was underselling how powerful it was.