She has a thing for blackbirds and ravens.

"The raven is my spirit animal. I did a series of four prints of ravens flying. Again, it's not a portrait of a raven."

QUIET MOMENTS

Sadue's photographs arose from a still time in her life.

"My images are about stillness, those quiet moments when you're sitting there noticing things."

Also a painter and print maker, photography entered her life during her second year at the Junior College of Albany.

"I really enjoyed the class, and I think what it taught me the most was how to look at the world differently. I started to notice things that I probably wouldn't have noticed. I didn't just snap pictures anymore. I really looked at things and had an idea of what I wanted to portray."

She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New York Institute of Technology and a Master of Art at Goddard College. Since 1991, in the Saranac Central School District, she has taught art, including black-and-white and digital photography.

"The thing I most get out of it, I am able as a teacher to show my students how to look at the world differently."

SHAPES OF LIGHT

Her digital photos on exhibit are straight and manipulated. "Singing Bowl" was inspired by watching sunlight change quickly against a wall.

"I was fascinated by the shapes of light. That happened to inspire me to take that still-life photo of the singing bowl on the meditation table in that room."

How light hits and falls in the natural landscape and on objects captivates Sadue.

"In black and white, that has to be really evident," she said. "I'm a very color-oriented person, too. I decided to have these images in black and white. I wanted to simplify them more and have the viewer look at the images and not be looking at the color. Color can really change the look of the photo.

"I wanted them to look at the specific image without the color."