One more example.
This one was taken in our living room. The camera was again on auto but this time set to macro and the white balance to tungsten. I was sitting fairly close to the dog at the time. I did put this one in photo shop to resize and darken and blur the background (living room was a mess that day). I also tried to fix the doggie red eye (which is really blue green) as you can see my attempts at recoloring the eyes didn't go so well.
The camera seems to do well enough in the macro mode, up close and personal.