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