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