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