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