Beer, Beautiful Beer!

SWNS - The amber nectar, in all it’s loveliness

As many of us already know, beer is a very beautiful thing.

But French Photographer Bertrand Kulik took his love of the amber nectar to the next level, and captured it’s bubbly loveliness in glorious detail.

After noticing some abstract shapes forming from the bubbles in his beer, Bertrand used macro photography to get a close up look at the “parallel world” inside his pint glass.

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“I was drinking a beer at home when I saw these abstract shapes in my glass,” explains Bertrand, 35.

“I’m very sensitive to shapes and colours and I’m always looking around me to see if there are some small details I can capture using macro photography, which I’m very fond of.

"The glass was perfect because it was very large, so it was possible for me to put my lens inside.”

Paris-based Bertrand held his lens just centimetres from the lager, where he watched a large number of air bubbles disperse to create an array of interesting shapes.

“I had to be very fast,” he says. “When I saw some interesting shapes I had to take pictures of them before they disappeared.

"When I put beer in the glass the biggest drops exploded, and so I had to be very perseverant.

"I wanted to see some abstract art in my glass and catch all the different shapes and colours. It was very beautiful to watch.”

The results were unrecognisable, appearing more as a canvas of beautiful bubbles than an alcoholic beverage.

“The pictures are so abstract that I saw some kind of universe in them,” says Bertrand.“I think they perfectly illustrate physical subject and theory like the dark matter, universe and parallel.

"I promise I wasn’t drunk at the time.”

Bertrand used a Canon Eos 7d camera with MP-E 65mm macro lens to capture the abstract artwork so close-up.

“It’s very difficult to master because if there are any vibrations, the pictures become fuzzy,” he says.

“To find a good focus with this lens it’s necessary to be very, very close.

"The light from my phone helped me to highlight the bubbles in this way.”