Alvesgaspar

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