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