While I don’t have fessie’s artistic talent, eye or vocabulary, I agree with her that your second picture is very nice, and a tremendous improvement over your first. Nothing wrong with pursuing other subjects.
(And remember, those stuck painting cornfields and pretending they are water might not be familiar with what a lobster trap looks like. Me, I didn’t scrutinize your picture closely enough to say one way or the other, until after your post above calling it a lobster trap. )