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I’m not qualified to give any additional tips on composition, other than the ones that have been already given; @jamesstaddon is the acknowledged expert in the composition arena. 🙂
But when I saw everyone else giving their suggested edits, then I figured I’d chime and contribute my 2 cents. James is right; if you had a RAW file, or even the original JPG, you could get lots better results, but I was surprised how well even this little compressed JPG file turned out!
The photo was about 3 stops underexposed, so it took some major tweaking to get it back to what I thought looked fairly “normal”.
If you learn how to edit your photos well, you’ll be amazed at the difference it can make in how “happy” you are with your shots. I made a video tutorial a long time ago teaching some of the basics of photo editing with RawTherapee. Someday I still plan to update it, and maybe even make one for LR. 🙂 If you pay attention to the principles though, you can use whatever software is available to achieve very similar results. Keep trying!