Congratulations to William Armstrong of Bedford, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. This is the first time William has won our little contest. He follows last week’s winner, Clem Montiel from Lleida, Spain.

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 Monday to Sunday, and the Art&Seek staff will pick a winner on Monday 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 William.

Title of photo: “Christmas Poinsettia”

Equipment: Shot with Canon EOS Rebel XSI equipped with a Tamron 10-24 lens

Tell us more about your photo: My photographs are created using dramatic light sculpturing techniques, bringing out the beauty and unique quality of the subject. Christmas Poinsettia had nine separate exposures which were combined using layers into this one image.