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Darran
McDonnell
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A few things I’ve been working on

Light / layout / logic

Handy with
light.
Curious about
code.

I’m Darran. I take photographs, put websites together, and tinker with ways to make everyday jobs a little less repetitive.

Take a look around
A little of what I see.
A woman beside pink flowers in a green garden, photographed by Darran McDonnell
Through my lens01 / 04

A camera.
A keyboard.
A habit of asking
“what if?”

Usually another idea on the go.Scroll to explore

A few things
I’ve been making.

I’m interested in how a website looks, what it feels like to use, and the small bits of automation that make a task less of a chore.

Websites & small projects
A layout experiment. Try a colour:

A place to try
something different.

I like putting a page together — trying a layout, changing a colour, finding the right words. Sometimes the interesting part is working out why one small change makes the whole thing feel different.

LayoutsWordsSmall details
Automations & experiments

“Could this be
a little simpler?”

I keep coming across jobs that involve copying the same details between places. I’m interested in making those handoffs a little easier — from getting a listing ready to moving content into the right fields.

A few things worth simplifying

01The same job, again
02A few steps joined together
03A little less work to do by hand
Less repetition. More headspace.

People.
Being people.

A graduation. A quiet moment together. Someone finding their feet in front of a camera. Those are the pictures I like making.

Explore my photography
01 / A moment to yourself↗
02 / A day to remember↗
03 / Just the two of you↗
04 / The next chapter↗
A few frames from my own camera.

Good light helps.
Feeling like yourself matters more.

03 / The person behind it

There’s usually
another idea on the go.

I tend to have a few different things on the go: some photographs to look through, a page to put together, or an idea for making a fiddly job a little easier.

This is a place to keep some of those things.
Thanks for having a look.

Darran

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