Rockport Harbor, Massachusetts, with it's quaint Bear Skin Neck pier full of artist shops and restaurants is a great place to photograph. When I purchased my new Nikon 24-120 VR lens, I drove up to Rockport to test out the lens. The photos in this were all shot on a bright and sunny day at f8, shutter from 1/50 to 1/640, ISO 200 with VR off. Other then cropping, optimizing contrast and sharpening, photos where not altered. I tested the lens more extensively otherwise, and included VR vs NO VR sample photos and reported my conclusions in Gear.