ART REVIEW : Geir Jordahl’s Panoramic Glamour Featured in Photos of Diverse Topography

Geir Jordahl’s Widelux camera turns sights into 140-degree panoramas; his black-and-white infrared film gives the oblong scenes a touch of glamour.

A pale black sky and feathery white palms surround a monstrous swimming pool in Waikiki Beach. A white tree trunk bisects a soft rise of luminous snow in the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah. A straggling row of tourists crosses wavy white sand under a streaky gray sky at the Ano Nuevo Reserve.

In some prints, the subject matter is too inert or routinely attractive to respond to Jordahl’s tonal and spatial emphases. The linear tensions in a shot like “Scotland”--a curving view of land and fence tucked up under a sky as snug fitting as a pie crust--offer a more personal travelogue. (Susan Spiritus Gallery, 3333 Bear St., No. 330 Crystal Court, Costa Mesa, to March 31.)