Congratulations to Patrick Mai of Hannover, Germany, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. Patrick is a first-time winner. He follows last week’s winner Sandra Kent of Dallas.

If you would like to participate in the Flickr Photo of the Week contest, all you need to do is upload your photo to our Flickr group page. It’s fine to submit a photo you took earlier than the current week, but we are hoping that the contest will inspire you to go out and shoot something fantastic this week to share with Art&Seek users. If the picture you take involves a facet of the arts, even better. The contest week will run from Tuesday to Monday, and the Art&Seek staff will pick a winner on Friday afternoon. We’ll notify the winner through FlickrMail (so be sure to check those inboxes) and ask you to fill out a short survey to tell us a little more about yourself and the photo you took. We’ll post the winners’ photo on Tuesday.

Now here’s more from Patrick.

Title of photo: “Dragonfly”

Equipment: Canon 6D; Canon 70-200 f2.8

Tell us more about your photo: It was a sunny day and I wanted to have a nice shot with a dragonfly. And I had so much luck -I found a couple of them in the near of a lake. It was pretty difficult to have the right moment to have a clear sight to them.