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