Sarah Welliver was hired as a staff photographer for The Island Packet in October 2008. She spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of sergeant. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. She is well-versed in multimedia, first learning her video and audio skills through the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute. 
Jay Karr 
Delayna Earley was hired as a staff photographer in Summer 2012. Earley, originally from Virginia, graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2011 with a bachelor's in photojournalism and history. She worked at newspapers in Virginia and Indiana before coming to the Packet/Gazette as a full-time photojournalist. She nabbed a Hearst Journalism Awards Program first-place finish for her news multimedia piece "Grassroots," which documented two members of the Bowling Green (Ky.) Tea Party and their reasons for joining. The same piece was featured in zMultimedia/ZUMA Press.
Drew Martin came to The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette as the photo and graphics editor in 2005 after working at the Savannah Morning News. He grew up in Kenosha, Wis., and graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a degree in art. He spends his days working with section editors, reporters and the photographers to produce local visual content. 
Four-year-olds Kensey Kaney, left, and her friend, Luna Rangel, both of Bluffton, run in pursuit of even more daffodils at the Three Sisters Farm U Pick Daffodils field. Kensey said she planned to pick "at least a hundred" of the flowers before she was through. The field on Calhoun Plantation Road in greater Bluffton was open for business on Saturday for the second weekend of 2013. "We're early this year," said farmer Chuck Merrick, "last year we opened Feb. 14." Merrick said the field would be closed on Sunday to allow more daffodils to blossom before reopening again next Saturday. For more information on the farm, go to www.upickdaffodils.com. (Jay Karr • Staff photo, 2/9/13)
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Jane Aurandt, front, and Priscilla Loeber, of HIlton Head Island, leave with their pickings on Saturday at the Three Sisters Farm daffodil field. (Jay Karr • Staff photo, 2/9/13)
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