Great idea, but framing and focus could be improved, suggest you reshoot.

guess it could be--too bad I took the shot once on vacation--so can't retake

Shouldn't be too hard to find an other lock.

Now that is a classic. Haven't seen a knob and lock like that for about 30 years.

exaclty why I don't want to retake the shot--it would loose character

It's a lovely photo for the family album, but not really sharp enough for a photography competition.

I wasn't aware that the sharpness of the photo would disqualify ti from a "competition". I thought it was more about capturing the moment and representing the theme of the "competition". I will take this into consideration in the future. Thank you.