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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:
I can't resist putting an alternative: Beethoven's last piano sonata:
And yet another one (so beautiful that hurts, or maybe I'm becoming soft with age): Chopin's Étude in c-sharp minor:
And also this sublime Agnus Dei from Bach's Mass in b minor (the boss, as Jebulon wrote:

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Selected featured pictures

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