Finally on Saturday 25/11 Cassi and I went for a PhotoWalk in the Aigaleo borough of Athens, and I got to shoot with my new 200mm ƒ/4 Nikkor Ai. We went to the River West Mall which includes an enormous IKEA. I was blown away by the way the 200mm can frame things, as it is literally the first time in years I have worked with a longer lens than my lovely 105mm.

Cassi and I were discussing how when moving away from the standard lenses you use normally, your eye takes a while to pre-vision the images you are about to make.

Let’s put it this way. Most of photographers tend towards having a favourite lens, which they seem to keep mounted almost all the time when they work. For me over the years, depending on the shoot, the most commonly used lens is the 50mm, though in the last few years I have also used the 24, 28, 35 and 105 more and more often. But the 35 and 50 are where my eye is most comfortable and most accustomed.

That’s how after literally forty years mounting a 200mm on my camera and going out to shoot was exciting and unfamiliar to equal measure. Add to that the also brand new addition of the 85mm and I am working outside my familiar optical norms. And I have to admit it is kind of exhilarating.

So below is the first batch from our last PhotoWalk, which aside from the IKEA includes some shots from the area.