[mel]

I prefer the original coloring best. The sand is more realistic. But I think that maybe if you cropped it in just a bit all around, so the gull was in roughly the same position but took up just a tad more of the frame, the composition all around would be more interesting. Try maybe cropping, proportionally, to about the top of that wave that's curling, that much all around.

I think it's cool how you caught the gull. I'd be trying to do something with it too.