Rabani

Knowing we can’t go to South Africa, the best next place is the local animal park or zoo. The problem with shooting animal in its captivity is the enclosure that keeps it in. The wire mesh, it shows in the picture. Either that, your camera will focus on the wire instead of your animal subject.
The only way to shoot animal without getting the wire mesh in the image, is to get as close as you can to the wire and shoot through it at the longest focal length at your subject. This way, the wire is so blurred it is almost unnoticeable, like as if you are shooting through it.
Beside shooting animal either looking at you suspiciously or bored, try getting them for what they are. Shoot elephant walking its size, orang utan picking on lice on itself or a giraffe peering over the fence, into someone’s backyard :)
And if…