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