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