Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.
A balloon vendor runs across a street with a trailing mass of balloons in Buenos Aires, November 1921. Photo: Newton W. Gulick; for National Geographic | src 125 Years of National Geographic Photography · Christie’s