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