He already knew then that the materials he used were no longer being made and would eventually run out. Twenty years later, he spoke of tracking down old Cibachrome machines through small ads, picking up whatever old chemicals and abandoned equipment he could find, but his dark room is now closed. There is a red produced by using Cibachrome that he will never achieve again. ‘Now I can almost make anything, I have fifty years skill and experience, but I cannot make the pictures.’ The colour has been taken away from him which must be like having a word taken from your vocabulary.