Congratulations to Widad Es-Soufi of Aix en Provence, France, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. This is the Widad’s second time to win the Flickr gold. His first victory came back in December of last year. He follows last week’s winner, Joseph Haubert 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 Widad.

Title of photo:  “Golden Droplet In the Dark”

Equipment: Canon EOS REBEL T3i with the canon lens: EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II and the off-camera flash: Yongnuo YN-560 IV flash Speedlite

Tell us more about your photo:  Don’t even listen to the narrow-minded people! Ignore them, you are special in your own way. Free your mind, find yourself and live your life. Be like this little droplet that runs away from the dark bottom to live in the top of everything, where the golden light of heaven shines! (This is a message for those that are being underestimated or have been judged a loser all their life)