I suck at taking pictures. What I want to take photos of is origami. For example:



Notice the blur. Notice the suckiness. Click it for a bigger, even blurrier version. See more here: http://www.chwombat.net/gallery2/origami/ If it's not blurry, likely someone else took the picture or else I got lucky.

I have a Canon Powershot A510. I don't know if it's any good. It has a million settings, most of which I don't understand.

Everything looks better if I leave the flash off, but it's also blurrier. I suppose that's because the shutter stays open longer, to let enough light in to get a good picture?

I know enough to use Macro mode when I get up close to something, however I don't see that it makes any difference. Everything is still blurry.

Does anyone know how to take pictures that don't suck? Any pointers? Anything I can read to learn?

(ps also please look at my origami pictures. Origami is nice.)