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