Don't let yourself be discouraged by the limitations of your equipment!*
Fellfrosch's and your picture are both attractive in two very different ways:
His picture shows a beautiful knife in nice lighting, but in the end it's just a knife sitting on a table.
Your picture might not be as aesthetically pleasing, but it tells a story. You obviously either put a lot of effort into arranging** the log and the knives this way, or this is the random result of a knife throwing competition.

*) Otherwise I would not have posted my bike photo for last month's competition. I knew I couldn't score with aesthetics, but I was hoping for an interesting composition. Unfortunately I screwed up the perspective, because it turns out it's hardly noticeable, that my bike was half-way folded.
**) I'm sure so did Fellfrosch, but his photo might just be the result of a lucky coincidence.