Duru Kaya

The hobby archive

Hobbies, arranged by topic

Ceramics, botanical foraging, and analogue film each have their own track, with a photo gallery recording material experiments and everyday routines.

Three tracks

What I keep returning to

Editorial photograph, soft natural window light, a half-finished

Topic 01

Ceramics, hand-building

Coiled pots and pinched bowls, worked slowly by hand. I keep notes on clay bodies, drying times, and the glazes that surprised me.

Topic 02

Botanical foraging

Walks through hedgerows and field edges, gathering leaves, seed heads, and bark. Each find goes into a dated notebook with where and when I picked it.

Editorial documentary photograph, soft natural daylight, a small
Editorial photograph, soft window light falling across a wooden t

Topic 03

Analogue film

Rolls shot on manual cameras and developed by hand. I shoot routines more than events: the kitchen table, the morning walk, the same window at different hours.

Photo galleries

Each hobby, in pictures

Every gallery carries descriptive alt text, a story caption, and a date stamp, so you can filter by what a photo shows, what it means, or when it was taken.

Editorial close-up, soft window light, hands smoothing the rim of
Editorial wider view, natural window light, a shelf of finished c
Editorial close-up, soft daylight, pressed leaves and seed heads
Editorial wider view, natural daylight, a foraging basket on a he
Editorial close-up, soft window light, a 35mm film canister and l
Editorial wider view, soft morning window light, a developing tra