Your travel4seniors.com editor captures this bucolic scene on the streets of the South Korean capital city. The intensity of the local chess-type of board game seems to attract both live and stone kibitzers.

Many seasoned citizens feel they’re just too busy to do daily exercises when traveling. Some justify it by believing all the running around to meet tight schedules, catch flights and grab cabs are enough exercise. However, that kind of stress isn’t a substitute for regular, fat-fighting, controlled daily workouts.

Another factor that makes exercise necessary is typical overeating while traveling. Have you been on cruises, to Vegas or other buffet-crazed vacation locations lately? When all-you-can-eat meals are handy, you can go so far off normal dining habits, you could add up to a pound of blubber daily.

Q: We signed on for a seven-day cruise with our church seniors group. We’ve just been told everyone has to dress up formal with tux and gown for dinner each evening.

We know cruises are much more relaxed these days, and don’t want to lug extra clothes with us. It also means added costs for baggage checking, and the laundry bill on the ship will be sky high. We want to go on the cruise, but can we ignore the dress up order? DRL, Louisville KY

As an old-time travel photographer who used to lug around all the heavy equipment, I envy senior wanderers today who can get the same or better results with just one little digital still or video camera.

You also see immediate proofs of your shots, and no longer need to take your film in for processing. Instead of hours in a smelly darkroom, you just look at the little images on your computer screen, scan, edit and let your desktop printer do the job in minutes.

Doggone it! I was born 60 years too soon. However, in spite of all the modern doohickeys that help make photos and videos easier, the same basic rules apply on how to get good, better and great pictures. Let’s list a few.

1. Keep the source of light behind you when pointing the camera at your subject. It bugs me when I see photos where the smiling family is just a bunch of silhouettes while the sun or bright lights glare from behind them. Of course, there are occasions when you feel artistic, and you deliberately want your subjects to be just blacked-out images against a sunrise or sunset. Just don’t let it happen accidentally.