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