maybe u tell us what was in your mind as you shot this picture, ie were u composing deliberately? or just "Wah! sunset!", snap!
for there are various interesting elements in the picture that you may or may not have seen, such as the shoreline middle left, the receding hills in the distance, and of course the nice light off the tree trunks in the foreground, and perhaps many other things that we do not see in this glimpse you have given us.
So did you or did you not
see all these before bringing up your camera?
And if you did why did you not place them all, arrange them in a more aesthetic combination in your mind and then in the camera viewfinder before you even squeeze the shutter release?
For example the side-lighted vertical trunks can be pushed to the edge of the picture and its boughs to frame the opposite shoreline and the distance hills, rather then these trees cutting up the shoreline with no apparent aesthetic rationale, etc etc
And this is before we talk about the technical challenge to do a sunrise shoot, but for that you can read anywhere - example do a google on the Internet and you will get more comprehensive and more correct advice than from unknown critics here.
You need to see a good picture to take/make a good picture. And if you can see a good picture, the camera's various program modes are usually sophisticated enough to deliver the goods, and you need not know anything technical at all. And I have seen some good pictures from kids using P&S.
If you want to take good pictures don't start with becoming a photographer. That's a dead end road.
And also see other peoples' works. That is one fast effective way to learn. But you have to see
actively meaning you have ask yourself what in the picture is good or bad and - most importantly - able to say
why it is good or bad.
For example you can see
this work of mine and tell me why it is good or bad.
