Congratulations to Mike Fiddleman of Dallas, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest! This is the third time Mike has won our Flickr Photo of the Week contest: his last win came in April, 2011 . He follows last week’s winner, Braulio Lazon-Conde.

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 Mike.

Title of photo: “now for another of america’s favorite pagan holidays…”

Equipment: A used Panasonic Lumix GX-1

Tell us more about your photo:  This was just one of the many gruesome, tortured faces that all the kids love (depicted in vegetable) I saw at the Dallas Arboretum recently. This one just captured my attention for some reason, and black and white seemed most suitable for the subject. Halloween is a curious holiday, isn’t it?