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