Two kinds of feedback here:
Technical--In Lightroom you can do just general image brightening and sharpening. It seems way too flat and on the soft side now. Increase exposure, highlights, add clarity and vibrance, and sharpen significantly.
Aesthetic--I like the position of the seagull just sitting on the rail--especially the webbed feet. That said, seagulls are very ordinary and uninteresting to many. The shot is too centered; and a couple of factors suck the attention away from the subject of the image including the red color in the background and the scale of the folks in the boat. The ordinariness of a seagull, plus its size, means that it won't command much dominance in an image, especially at the dead-on angle of the shot.
I think your intention is photographic and that's good. With more shots your art will improve.
M
Last edited by Miguel; 12-03-2013 at 10:42 AM.