In 1979 and 1980, I was living with a couple of good buddies, one of whom was Bill Nye. Not long after, Bill moved on from his work as an engineer to being an entertainer and then to being a science educator. At the beginning, though, Bill did some stand-up in Seattle and I shot a series of images he could use as promo. We hung a quilt against a wall in the dining room and started clicking the shutter. Bill dove into his routine and the resulting images have made me smile through the decades. I can’t remember which one he used for display at the front doors of comedy clubs, but no matter. I think they’re all fun and pretty accurately capture the Bill Nye I knew back then.
