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HTML

<div id="about">

    <div id="abouttext">
    djfd
    </div>

    <div id="aboutpic">
        <img src="images/photoph.png" alt="Yeah, that's me">
    </div>

</div>

CSS

#about
{
    width: 70%;
    height: auto;
    margin: 0 auto;
    display: flex;
}

#aboutpic
{
    width: 40%;
    float: right;
}

#abouttext
{
    width: 50%;
    background-color: #2A1F33;
    opacity: 0.6;
    float: left;
    padding-top: 5%;
    padding-left: 5%;
    padding-right: 5%;
}

img {
    height: 400px;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
}