Jacques, a really interesting , and good 
, series you have going. Interesting mixture of eye contact and candids. Really makes me want to hang out in a cosmopolitan city for a change to rural Goa. A few days in the cafes of Paris would work for me 
. I do miss the weekend jaunts to Paris, Amsterdam and Bruges 
. Funny strange that I do not miss London and a weekend in Mumbai just isn't the same.
Nice to see the D3X at work and you're making the 24-85vr look very good
All the best
Tom
I do have fond memories of Bombay (now Mumbai), the marine drive and al :-) I do think you can get those portraits wherever you happen to be. As a matter of fact, most of my pictures are shot between my workplace and home, a quarter of an hour walk process, the café is always the same one (lunch) and so on !
I guess people get used (I would say "tamed") by the guy with a camera, as it's like glued in my hand (the satchel is for transportation on the motorbike :-)
The 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 VR AF-S G is quite useful. Small enough, light enough, sharp enough, with a proper range for cities. I hesitated with the 24-120mm f/4 but found it too big and heavier for a constant use. I might get the 70-200mm f/4 one of these days to have the further reach I may need !
