Olympus 1030 SW....learning to take snaps

Have you noticed how good some people's blog photos are?!

I have and I think I need to find out how it's done. So today I thought I would mess about with some old cross stitch kits of mine;

DMC Creation Summer Breeze by Kazuko Aoki  and
DMC DECO Dandelion

As you can see belows efforts, I have a hit & miss approach. I think I might need a book.