Elias Vane

Elias Vane is a Framer template for landscape, travel, and documentary photographers who want a portfolio that feels like their work: calm, cinematic, and personal.

It’s built around an analog photographer’s desk. Polaroid frames, washi tape, film-strip edges, and a viewfinder hero sit on a warm ivory palette with a single pink accent. Instead of a flat grid of images, your work is presented as a series. Each series has its own story page, a curated gallery with handwritten captions, and links to your other projects.

Who it’s for

• Landscape & travel photographers

• Documentary and editorial photographers

• Fine-art photographers selling prints

• Photography studios, workshop hosts and visual storytellers

Pages included (10)

• Home

• Work

• Series detail (CMS)

• About

• Services & Prints

• Journal

• Contact: project inquiry form and direct email lines

• 404

Key features

• Polaroid hero: photos drift continuously, flow around your headline, slow near the cursor and “develop” in on load, like prints in a darkroom tray

• Camera cursor: a tiny camera trails the pointer, tilts, flashes on click and reacts to links. Optional shutter and focus sounds are included, and it is hidden on touch devices.

• Page wipe transitions and staged entrance animations on every page, with word-by-word heading reveals

• CMS-powered series: gallery lists with captions, themes, types, countries, dates, camera, frames, client and print details

• Journal/blog with categories, featured post and reading time

• Services & pricing layout for commissions and print editions

• Contact form with project-type select

Design system

• 15 colour styles: Ivory, Paper, Blush, Espresso and a Honey Pink accent

• 17 responsive text styles

• Consistent spacing system

• 20 reusable components

• 4 code components: polaroid hero, camera cursor, local time, article read time

• A Design System page inside the project for quick customisation