Above: Behrendt prefers to work with black-and-white 35mm film, and he prints his own large format photos. The film he prefers is hard to come by, as is the 20x24 photographic paper he requires.
Space Center, the natural area around the cape might have succumbed to development. “It seemed the perfect example of how man and nature can get along,” he says. Behrendt’s respect for the airborne denizens of the Space Coast stems from a long-lasting relationship. In 1949, when Lloyd was just a baby, his weather forecaster father moved the Behrendt clan to the Space Coast. “He forecast the first rocket launch from the Cape,” says Lloyd. When he was less than a year old, Lloyd witnessed Bumper
For most of his adult life, Lloyd Behrendt has aimed his camera lens at the many birds – both real and manmade – that frequent the Space Coast.
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