I purchased the nikon coolpix p80 yesterday and have been taking pictures. Right now I'm not too sure if it was just a bad buy or me taking bad pictures(hopefully it's me). I have been comparing pictures I've been taking with pictures other people have taken with the p80 on flickr and their's always seems to pop and look more amazing.

Here are samples of what I've been taking, they don't give me the feel I want with this camera....

http://flickr.com/photos/26825673@N04/

I've really just been doing everything automatic, haven't changed ISO's, shutter speed, or things of that nature, is that affecting my photos? I'm also not sure if I'm using the right settings anyway, the close-up shots were all shot macro, everything else was shot with the SCENE mode- Landscape. Can anyone give me input on what I'm doing wrong?

The pictures in the flickr photostream are some of the best quality shots I took, and they still don't match up to the photos on flickr........