Jessica Nelms of Seneca is a photographer for the Daily Journal/Messenger and its related publications. Not liking to sit still or doing the same thing every day, she stays active and works outside. She loves capturing a moment and freezing it forever. She keeps company with her strays, which, at the moment, include three black labs, a few cats, and some rabbits. Outside of work she enjoys hiking, dancing, reading, swimming, and visiting beaches and lakes.

Recent Stories

• Festival offers special shopping
  Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
  Clemson University student Emily Grubbe, left, and a fellow student shop at the Ten Thousand Villages Gift Festival at the Hendrix Center earlier this week. | Read more

• In the mood for some food
  Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
  A gathering of hungry ducks hunts for a meal by the pond in the South Carolina Botanical Gardens at Clemson University on Wednesday afternoon. | Read more

• A bloody rivalry
  Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
  Clemson University junior Margie Hatcher gives blood on Monday morning at the Hendrix Center during the annual Clemson-USC Blood Drive. | Read more

• Oconee Hospice celebrates 20 years
  Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
  Oconee Hospice of the Foothills celebrated its 20th anniversary at a gala reception at The Vault in Seneca last week. | Read more

• Go on and catch ‘em if you can
  Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
  Jim DeNisco, left, and his buddy, Wendall Arnold, enjoy a beautiful Friday morning full of fishing on Lake Keowee at South Cove Park in Seneca. | Read more

• Walk the plank in Walhalla on Sunday
  Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
  Youth Services Librarian Christin Hirleman decorates the Walhalla Library on Friday afternoon for a pirate party that will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
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• Arts Center robbed
  Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
  Seneca Police Officer Robbie Johnson dusts for fingerprints at the Blue Ridge Arts Center Friday afternoon following a robbery. | Read more

• Workin’ on the walkway
  Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
  Crews with Southern Concrete Construction Inc. make repairs to the sidewalks along E. S. Second Street in downtown Seneca on Thursday afternoon. | Read more

• Motorcyclist injures leg during Seneca crash
  Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
  Zachary Durham suffered an injury to his right leg Wednesday when he lost control of his motorcycle while attempting to avoid a truck on Mountain View Road in Seneca, police say. | Read more

• Head-on crash causes unknown injuries
  Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
  An unidentified man was taken by EMS to Oconee Medical Center on Tuesday morning when his white Ford Crown Victoria hit a silver SUV head-on on Reedy Fork Road in the Friendhsip community south of Seneca. | Read more