Congratulations to Steve Lofton, the winner of our Flickr Photo of the Week contest! Steve follows last week’s winner, Shawn O’Connell. More from Steve in a minute. In the meantime, consider this a plea to keep those photos coming — don’t forget about us as the holidays approach. We want to keep this contest going strong through the new year and beyond.

If you would like to participate, all you need to do is upload your photo to to our Flickr group page. It’s fine to submit a photo you took previous to 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 another 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 Wednesday.

Now, more from Steve:

Steve Lofton
Equipment: Shot this one with a Canon 20d
Tells us more about your photo: It was taken way out in West Texas east of El Paso on Interstate 10. I really love the vast wide open space of that part of our state.