Ephemeros for

Travellers

Leave more than footprints — add your frame to the places you visit, and watch them change after you fly home.

Explore the map

Pick a fixed viewpoint

A “spot” is a documented frame — coordinates, compass heading and tilt — that anyone can find again.

Line up with the ghost

The previous photo floats over your camera so every capture matches the original framing exactly.

Watch change unfold

Aligned photos become a timelapse — and an open, research-grade record of how the place changes.

Every traveller takes the same photo — the viewpoint above the old town, the beach at sunset, the temple gate. Ephemeros turns that photo into something bigger: a frame in a timelapse that spans years of visitors, seasons and light.

Find a spot at the place you're visiting — often a QR code at the viewpoint takes you straight to the framing — line your camera up with the ghost overlay, and add your photo to the series. Your shot joins everyone else's, aligned pixel-for-pixel, and the place's timelapse grows by one more day.

Why travellers love it

  • Your photo outlives the trip. It becomes part of a shared, growing record of the place — not one more file lost in your camera roll.
  • Follow the places you've been. After you fly home, watch your viewpoint under snow, in spring bloom, at harvest — all the visits you didn't make.
  • See a place in time, not just in space. Before you go, play a spot's timelapse and watch years of the destination in seconds.
  • Start spots of your own. First one there? Frame the view, create the spot, and let future travellers keep it alive.
  • Group a trip into a list. Collect the spots along your route into a shareable list — a photographic travel journal others can follow and extend.

The famous views get photographed a thousand times a day, and the photos vanish into a billion camera rolls. Line yours up with everyone else's instead, and those thousand photos become one long, continuous look at a place you love.

Start recording change today

The best time to take the first photo was years ago. The second-best time is now — and every photo after that gets more valuable.

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Spreading the word? Get the printable QR poster (PDF) for noticeboards, trailheads and meetups.