Digital pants fairy

How to get the best landscape photo (digital slr)? - great photos with your digital slr very helpful!

We take the hot-air balloon Tuesday. I'm pretty good in most pictures, but my photos of landscapes, sometimes too short ... Misty future, etc.

I have a D80 with a Nikkor 18-200mm VR ... Do you have specific advice that will help me to be great landscape photographs?

The excursion takes place in the early morning hours shortly after sunrise. It is a very sunny.