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