Orange County

Geir Jordahl’s Widelux camera turns sights into 140-degree panoramas; his black-and-white infared 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 in the Ano Nuevo Reserve.

In a number of 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 piecrust--offer a more personal travelogue. (Susan Spiritus Gallery, 3333 Bear St., 330 Crystal Court, Costa Mesa, to March 31.)