Hobcaw Barony, a 17,500-acre wildlife refuge located at the tip of the Waccamaw Neck in Georgetown County, is situated between the Waccamaw River, Winyah Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Hobcaw Barony was originally home to the Waccamaw Indians and later the area was subdivided by colonial settlers into numerous smaller plantations where rice and indigo were cultivated. After the Civil War, the land was sold to millionaire Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, who used it as a hunting retreat and family getaway. Baruch eventually sold the land to his eldest daughter Belle in 1935 and her love for the land led her to establish a trust through which Hobcaw would serve as a preserve for research and teaching. The property now holds the USC Center for Marine Biology and the Clemson University Center for Forestry Research.

In 2002 Jane Nodine was awarded a Belle W. Baruch Foundation Fellowship to create a photo essay, "In the Artists Eye: A Photographic Essay of Hobcaw Barony". During June and December of 2002 she shot over 800 black and white photographs to film. A group of nearly 100 photographs makes up the completed essay and is part of the Foundation archives. Twelve of Jane's photographs are included in the 2006 historical monograph "Plantation Between the Waters: A Brief History of Hobcaw Barony" published by History Press of Charleston and London and written by Lee G. Brockington with the support of the Belle W. Baruch Foundation.