Congratulations to Wade Shaffer of Plano, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. This is the first time Wade has won our little contest. He follows last week’s winner, Fabio Bonasera of Pisa, Italy.

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 Wade.

Title of photo: “Window”

Equipment: Canon EOS 5D, EF 35mm f/2

Tell us about your photo: The photo was taken in the Hickory Street Annex in Deep Ellum, a beautiful repurposing of an old industrial site near the old Pearlstone Mill and Grain Elevator. I was searching for signs of life in the more desolate parts of Deep Ellum.