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