A couple months ago, I spent a few hours in the historic downtown area of
Apex, N.C., and I presented my images in a post here. Not being as familiar with the town's layout as I would have liked, I missed swinging by town hall and the community on Hunter Road, a nicely designed complex the community calls "Apex Town Campus."
I was back in the area Monday, so I made a point to tour the campus, which consists of a three-floor Town Hall building and a community building (which has two large gyms and several meeting and exercise rooms) separated by a circular plaza.
A nearby pond enhances the campus aesthetics, and with autumn colors still in great form, it made the pond a no-brainer for photo exploration.
The photo leading off the post is I guess what would be considered the back side of the town hall building. It looks out over the circular plaza, across from which is the community building (below). A view of the three-level town hall from the front (which looks out at a parking lot) is the second image below.
As usual, to view a larger and sharper version of a photo, simply click on the image. To view a
full gallery of this shoot, click on the link in this sentence.
Photo geek stuff: I captured everything with my Canon 6D and Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD lens. Even though it was sunny out, I elected not to use my polarizing filter. For each composition, I bracketed for three exposures to allow for melding into one in Photomatix high-dynamic range (HDR) software later in post-processing.
Above: This leaf, lying by itself near the main entrance to town hall, caught my eye.
Visitors leaving the front door to town hall get this view (above) of the parking lot. If you click on the image to bring up a larger version, look at the horizontal area of the pergola (just right of center and slightly upward). There is some foliage dangling. The photo below is a closeup of that foliage.
The town hall building has a rotunda, and the rotunda floor appears in the image above, while the dome appears in the image below.
Above: A view of the upper floors of town hall from the rotunda floor.
A view of the town council chambers on the second floor (above) and, below, sitting in a corner of the first floor, is an exhibit of what the sign identifies as "Apex's first post office, circa 1870s."
Above: Seasonal decorations on one of the buildings.
A section of one of the gyms in the community building (above), a brick-lined hallway just outside the gym (first below) and a look inside the rec and game room, also in the community building (second below).
Some of the landscaping in the circular plaza between town hall and the community building (above) and a gazebo behind the community building (below).
Above and next four below: Various views of the campus along the pond along Hunter Road.
Above: The sign and a garden that greet visitors as they come and go from the access off Hunter Road.
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