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