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!

Looking down on a marvel...

On a beautiful, sunny day in Las Vegas, I took off for the Hoover Dam, to go up on the new bypass bridge. It is everything I hoped. These are a few early shots. Lots more work to do, but here's a hint:

Looking up from the visitor's center:

And here is what it is like to sit in God's Chair!!

Nice, eh?

Variations on a theme, of course. I guess you just had to be there--still, click on these to see larger versions!

Off to do some Photoshopping!!
By the way, Here's a quick video--that loud traffic noise isn't those vehicles you see at lower left, but the busy traffic on the bridge about ten feet behind me!