It's hard to have much more fun than this...

Arthur C. Clarke once said that the product of any sufficiently advanced society is indistinguishable from--magic.

So, for a little magic, my panorama from above Hoover Dam was criss-crossed with all kinds of power lines.

What to do? With a bit of advice from Jack Drafahl, the Photoshop guru, I went to work with the latest release, Photoshop CS5. Look what its feature known as 'content-aware fill' was able to do...

Voila! Cables gone!