Here is another example of a good and bad. I'll explain below.
I've always thought this was a great idea for a firework photo. And for a little point and shoot that I hand balanced on the window sill of my car, not a bad job. It is also an example of playing with your camera settings. Had I set this to "fireworks", it wouldn't have come out. Instead, I used either "candlelight", or "nightscenery".
On the bad side, I used the digital zoom to get close enough and obviously this would look better with my dslr 28-300 zoom with the camera mounted on a tripod. It also would have looked better if I had played with it a bit in photoshop. I would have taken the street light out and upped the color a bit.
I say all this to encourage you all to take more photos and be creative. Also to show that you can get good photos with a point and shoot. It won't be the quality of some of the really great photos on this board, but it will be good.