I spent a few nights camping in Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park. On one of those nights, a Malayan porcupine stopped by for a visit. This image gives a good look at those quills, which are actually hollow, hardened hairs made of keratin. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 155mm) ISO 500, f/9 at 1/250th of a second, two Nikon SB-900 flash units.
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I spent a few nights camping in Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park. On one of those nights, a Malayan porcupine stopped by for a visit. This image gives a good look at those quills, which are actually hollow, hardened hairs made of keratin. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 155mm) ISO 500, f/9 at 1/250th of a second, two Nikon SB-900 flash units.
(me, singing to the tune of “Sweet Child of Mine”)
Oh, oh, oh, oh coooool porcupine
There must be a legend somewhere “out there” where a badly behaving peacock was turned into a porcupine,
I wouldn’t want to trip over this guy in the dark! The dark background really does highlight those beautiful quills. Nice ground level capture!!