New Years Eve is one of those nights where people really let loose to celebrate the end of the year and the optimistic outlook for the next. Imbibing is almost a given (except when you're tasked as being a designated driver to which you really shouldn't drink) but sometimes people can take it a bit far.
During one NYE, my brother apparently went a little too fast too early. I arrived at a friend's house to celebrate the night after coming off of work to find my friends a couple of hours into the night already "feeling good" (expected) but I didn't expect to see my brother half way passed out as seen in this photo. Actually, I didn't really even expect my brother to be there at all. There's a running joke within my circle of friends that you'll never see me and my brother at the same place, at the same time. There have been many instances where I was at a party first and leaving early, only to have my brother arrive at the same party well after I have gone and vice versa. That's neither here nor there but it's an interesting piece of information. Anyway, from what I gathered that night, my brother had gone a little bit too hard earlier in the party and started to begin his burnout just as I have arrived. Not long after I got there, he was pretty much passed out on the couch. If I remember correctly, it was around 10:30pm.
Pace is the trick.
"Go hard, burn hard" / 6x6 medium format Ilford Pan F 50 / December 2011