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Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Lisboa, Portugal

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The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa wrote that Newton's binomial theorem was as beautiful as the Venus de Milo.

I would like to add another masterpiece to the pair: Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue: [1]
I can't resist putting an alternative: Beethoven's last piano sonata: [2]
And yet another one (so beautiful that hurts, or maybe I'm becoming soft with age): Chopin's Étude in c-sharp minor: [3]
And also this sublime Agnus Dei from Bach's Mass in b minor (the boss, as Jebulon wrote: [4]

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Selected featured pictures

Image 1Triplets flowers
Image 2Green lacewing
Image 3Seagull in flight
Image 4Anthidium bee
Image 5Three stages of a Common Poppy
Image 6Palácio Nacional de Mafra, Portugal
Image 7Glazed tiles
Image 8Twin flowers of Lantana camara with unexpected guest
Image 9Painted Lady butterfly
Image 10Bridge over river Lia, Ponte da Barca, Portugal
Image 11Stairway in Mosanto Castle, Portugal
Image 12Windows in Castelo Branco, Portugal
Image 13Hoverfly hovering
Image 14Reflections in a Chigago building
Image 15The sea at Porto Covo
Image 16Orthetrum coerulescens dragongly
Image 17View of Tampa, Florida
Image 18The photographer. Where is he going: towards us or away from us?
Image 19Flower and leaves of Pallenis maritima
Image 20Desert locust
Image 21Colombo shopping center
Image 22Apartment buildings in Chicago
Image 23Hoverfly on flower
Image 24The tower of Belém, Lisbon
Image 25Hoverfly on flower
Image 26Young paper wasp queen guarding her nest and eggs
Image 27Spring Alentejo country view
Image 28Tachnind fly
Image 29Hoverfly on a leaf of oleander
Image 30Young male cat
Image 31Typical house at Porto Covo, Portuga
Image 32Goldenrod Crab spider waiting for prey
Image 33Hen running
Image 34Inflorescence of Freesia leichtlinii
Image 35Stained-glass window in the ceiling of the Great Hall, Library of Congress
Image 36Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral
Image 37Room of the ambassadors, Alcázar of Seville
Image 38Antiphonary in the Convent of Tibães
Image 39River Tagus viewed from Portas do Sol, Santarém
Image 40Skyline in Tampa, Florida
Image 41Pair of Fuschia flowers
Image 42Solitary bee feeding
Image 43The missing square
Image 44Batalha monastery, Portugal
Image 45Using a marine sextant
Image 46View of Ghent, Belgium
Image 47Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Image 48Blue flower of Chicorium intybus
Image 49False blister beetle on a spike
Image 50Male paper wasp
Image 51Legend of the Miraculous Sacrement, Brussels
Image 52Two chimneys, Porto Covo
Image 53The monster
Image 54Hoverfly on a flower
Image 55Surfer
Image 56Female Red-veined darter dragonfly
Image 57Portrait of Inês
Image 58Flowers of Bugloss
Image 59St Peter's basilica, Rome
Image 60Stormy sea, Porto Covo
Image 61Pot-bellied pigs
Image 62Solitary bee
Image 63Wheat field after the harvest, Portugal
Image 64Fly making bubbles
Image 65Breaking wave with ships, Porto Covo
Image 66Bumblebee collecting nectar
Image 67Stormy sea at Porto Covo, Portugal
Image 68Flower and leaves of Lantana camara
Image 69A yellow flower of Coleostephus myconis
Image 70Basílica de San Francisco el Grande, Madrid
Image 71Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
Image 72Sunset at Porto Covo
Image 73a poster of Aceraceae flowers
Image 74Sash windows in Porto Novo, Portugal
Image 75Crochet table-cloth
Image 76European beekiller wasp
Image 77Wasp blowing a bubble
Image 78BT Tower, London
Image 79Monastery of Alcobaça, Portugal
Image 80Dome of St Peter's cathedral, Rome
Image 81Playing in the waves
Image 82Poster of coloured flowers
Image 83Seagull yelling
Image 84Running into the light, S. Martinho do Porto
Image 85Stormy day at Costa da Caparica
Image 86Juvenile Barn Swallows
Image 87Biblioteca Joanina, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Image 88Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow
Image 89Playing in the surf
Image 90Red velvet mites on a Convolvulus arvenvis flower
Image 91Beach and village of Nazaré
Image 92Weevil
Image 93View of Prague
Image 94Marmelade fly
Image 95Poster of white flowers
Image 96Dome of Sagrada Família Cathedral, Barcelona
Image 97Paper wasp laying an egg
Image 98Female Vagrant Emperor
Image 99Three stages of an Opium Poppy
Image 100Hoverfly feeding on pollen
Image 101Banded garden spider
Image 102A new wasp colony
Image 103Speckled Wood butterfly
Image 104Storm in Porto Covo
Image 105Sunset at Porto Covo
Image 106Bridge over river Lia, Ponte da Barca, Portugal
Image 107Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
Image 108Lusitano horse
Image 109Tomb at Santa Maria del Popolo church, Rome
Image 110Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Portugal
Image 111Using a vernier caliper