Nice, crisp photo. Interesting expression. Personally I like the border as it gives it the feel of a movie outtake. What really holds the shot back in my opinion is the composition. More or less dead centered and visually unexciting because of it. Good luck, interested to see how this fares.
Lovely light for this sort of portrait. I also really like the out of focus background that implies trees/ rolling landscape behind. I think the expression could be better though.