Congratulations to Ernie Lara Moraga of Jinotepe, Nicaragua, the winner of the Flickr Photo of the Week contest. This is the first time Ernie has won our little contest. He follows last week’s winner, Wade Shaffer of Plano.

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 Ernie.

Title of photo: “Walking Down”

Equipment: I took this picture with my cell phone, a Samsung Galaxy Mini S3.

Tell us about your photo: I took this picture while I was walking in the Vatican City in Rome. It was this rainy day in Rome, and while walking I turned around and I saw the lights, the cathedral, the river on one side and my dad walking towards me. I felt that it was the moment that needed to be captured.