It shoots wide enough to create beautiful, striking shots, focuses rapidly amd accurately, and the VR helps a lot for shooting in low light.

Makes good panoramic shots

This is a useful lens for indoors - to catch everything inside a room - and for outdoors for those deep, wide scenic shots

This is now the lens that typically sits on my camera, because it encourages (sort of requires) shots that are taken very close to your subjects, a relationship that is reflected in the images themselves.