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Miles Metcalfe

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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 15/08/2026
The invisible sun revealed.
A solar eclipse in the UK with a visual artefact of a second sun.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 14/08/2026
Nature’s colander.
Curvy shadows through leaves during an eclipse
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 20/05/2026
A puddle collects just where you step off the crossing. Pedestrian-hostile London at its finest.: lastchance.rodeo/2026/05/20/a-puddl…
A muddy puddle on the lip of a pedestrian crossing with no drainage
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 20/05/2026
A GB Rail Freight train passes through Hackney without a single container loaded: lastchance.rodeo/2026/05/20/a-gb-ra…
Freight cars in the evening sun, empty of payload
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 06/05/2026
It’s local elections in London tomorrow, 7 May. Don’t forget to vote! Why do people become councillors? What do they do? Here’s another cute video from Canning Town South councillor Rohit Dasgupta on what he’s doing for local residents.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 05/05/2026
Greatorex Street. 📍 At 📍 Greatorex Street watching the Air Ambulance come in to land.
Cloudy skies, tree in the foreground, red helicopter of the air ambulance against the sky
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/04/2026
I spend a lot of time tangling with local government. After a while, you get to know the good guys from the bad. Here's local good guy, Rohit Dasgupta, who's standing once again as a Labour councillor for Canning Town. You won't get a better councillor. Vote for him.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 07/03/2026
Dancers at the Newham Civic Awards, 4 March 2026
Three dancers, moodily lit from behind.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 07/03/2026
Councillor Amar Virdee at the Newham Civic Awards, 4 March 2026
A young man in a black suit with a black turban is waiting in the wings, holding his speech, waiting to go on stage, lit by purple lighting from the stage.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 20/01/2026
The UK grocery industry, which receives a massive government subsidy of in-work benefits for its workforce, still will not pay a living wage.
Black and white photo of a large, illuminated sign-board showing a female grocery worker, advertising the charity Grocery Aid that helps impoverished grocery workers in the UK. It is night time. Behind are high-rise buildings and a data centre.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 27/12/2025
The wind blows a bin out at Heron Quays
A plastic bin-bag is blown out of its holder.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 26/12/2025
Stratford Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Looking south down the Lea towards the Accelor Mittal orrbital and some cod-brutalist edifice
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/12/2025
Dark skies at Westferry
Striking cloud front looking south from Westferry to Rotherhithe
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/12/2025
Canning Town Station on a foggy morning
Black and white photo. High rise residential buildings loom up into the foot, in the middle ground there's a substantial concrete bridge for trains to pass over.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/12/2025
Very big goldfish on Telehouse Pond
A larger golden carp floats over fallen leaves
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/12/2025
Shrink-wrapped postbox at Canary Wharf
A UK postbox covered in black shrink-wrap
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 22/11/2025
Canary Wharf.
Black and white photograph of visitors to Canary Wharf.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 22/11/2025
Prestige Textiles
Black and white photo of a shop house in South East London - and pigeons
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 22/11/2025
Pigeons at Canary Wharf tube station.
A view through trees of pigeons on the glass roof of the entrance to Canary Wharf tube station - the birds have a portrait blur
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 29/10/2025
Black and white photograph of a person walking past a municipal litter bin by a parade of shops - this is Freemasons Road, Newham, London
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/10/2025
Black and white photo of the skyscrapers of Wood Wharf (Canary Wharf) from the Uber Boat terminal at Trinity Buoy Wharf. Two boat workers and a launch are visible in the middle ground.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/10/2025
Side profile at night against an illuminated background of Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, directly elected mayor of the London Borough of Newham, checking her phone
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 25/10/2025
Black and white photograph of a teardrop sculpture at Canary Wharf with iconic high-rise buildings reflected.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 02/08/2025
The eagle-eyed among you have reminded me that this is a photo of Trantor, not Poplar, on the way to the Seer Church, and several other exterior scenes - (Foundation, Season 1, Episode 1).
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 20/07/2025
Wet afternoon in Poplar
A public bin in an underpass in the rain.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 01/06/2025
This tree is an interloper in the reeds
A tree in the reed beds of the Lea, colourful blocks of flats in the background
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 17/05/2025
Kettles are important for me - they are always in view in the kitchen, and are the first thing you’ll use when entertaining visitors. This one is from Ottoni Fabbrica.
A bright red kettle on a kitchen worktop with Morrocan tiles in the background. The kettle is made by Ottoni Fabbrica.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 20/04/2025
Waitrose Canary Wharf just doesn’t care.
a sign advertising vegan sausages in a veganuary promotion - in April
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 20/04/2025
The celebrity coot in Eden Dock at Canary Wharf looks after her chicks.
A Eurasian coot on her nest of reeds looks down at a red-headed chick, dappled water in the background
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 30/03/2025
Basildon town centre.
A brown block of flats stands on white wishbone risers against a moody sky
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 30/03/2025
Seagulls exploded by the Westferry Deathray over Newfoundland Wharf
Out of focus seagulls over an illuminated high rise building. The bird look like exploding Starros
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 16/03/2025
The last days of Robin Hood Gardens
A worker in a hard hat looks on as the last remaining multi-storey segment of a council housing block is demolished
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 16/03/2025
I saw this bird by Hallsville Road in Canning Town on Saturday. It was too quick for me and flew off before I could get a good photo. I think it’s a kestrel.
A kestrel takes off from a fence, flying towards a white and orange block of flats.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 15/03/2025
Photographing the sunset on the Royal Docks
A group of men check their cameras as they stand on the side of a dock photographing the sunset.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 15/03/2025
Insect learning centre, Statford
Education house for learning about insect: domed like a cycle helmet with glazed panels, in front of a mid-rise office-block
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 13/03/2025
A stickered telecommunications box in Hackney
Black and white photo of a heavily stickered on-street telecommunications box beside a black bollard, against a stucco wall
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 21/02/2025
Boarding the Rainbow Train: lastchance.rodeo/2025/02/21/boardin…
Boarding the Rainbow Train
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 18/01/2025
Preparations for Winter Lights
A colourful art exhibit in a shopping mall. Above is a sign Positive Spin, below a console of 3 slot-machine-like curved windows with bright yellow buttons below.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 18/01/2025
A gill keeps Bird Boy company
A misty evening, the geometric London City Hall to the right, the Airline cable car above, a gull sits on the head of a bronze statue of a boy with a long beak that stands on a floating palette
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 16/01/2025
An English to English translation error in Windows 11
Windows Update Last ticked: 1 minute ago - an English to English translation error in Windows 11
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 15/01/2025
Luk Brothers and Bad Coffee shopfronts in Hackney Wick
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 12/01/2025
Two half-built residential towers loom over a night-time Poplar Marina: lastchance.rodeo/2025/01/12/two-hal…
Two half-built residential towers loom over a night-time Poplar Marina
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 11/01/2025
The moon in the east over high-rise buildings, and reflected in the water of Poplar Marina: lastchance.rodeo/2025/01/11/the-moo…
The moon in the east over high-rise buildings, and reflected in the water of Poplar Marina
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 28/08/2024
Riding the rainbow train this morning.
Commuter train at a station platform. It is painted in rainbow colours to celebrate Pride.
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 04/06/2024
Big fire in Canning Town this morning
Smoke billows over the rooftops, obscuring construction and high rise buildings
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 11/05/2024
A glitch in the Matrix
A wall-sized LED displaying a digital artwork at Canary Wharf has developed a glitch with the scene split in the middle - the scene itself is a dreamlike London skyline with small figures whizzing around in invisible Tube trains
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 03/05/2024
Rentier Capitalism by Brett Christophers: an unputdownable read
Part of a book cover, reading "Rentier Capitalism - Who Owns the Economy and Who Pays for It?"(Book by Brett Christophers)
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 01/05/2024
Bubble tea in Stratford
A line of people waiting at a bubble tea kiosk in front of a large glass window, seating pods in the background, with a 70s airport feel, Westfield logo visible on a building beyond the glass
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 30/04/2024
My hometown: dancing under the overpass
Couples dance together under a concrete flyover, decorated with red swooshes, people sitting on benches look on. Terry Spinks Place, Canning Town, East London
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Miles Metcalfe @lastchance.rodeo · 29/04/2024
Drift down to the beach
A paraglider descends towards the beach over the sea, with the sun setting behind the shoulder of a mountain in the background
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