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