{"id":34964,"date":"2025-07-31T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34964\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:58:10","slug":"northern-beaches-diy-spot-features-in-little-sydney-lives-photography-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34964\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern beaches DIY spot features in Little Sydney Lives photography competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside an abandoned telecommunications building nestled in bushland on the northern beaches is a secret skate park, beloved by skaters, including eight-year-old photographer Arthur \u201cArtie\u201d Stone.<\/p>\n<p>A photo Artie took inside the DIY skate park, known by locals as Portside, was a finalist in the Little Sydney Lives photography competition for budding shutterbugs aged five to 12.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arthur Stone was a finalist in the Little Sydney Lives photo competition, which is run by City of Sydney and open to kids aged five to 12. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/50f8592011f16786f99a9e9836018c98c8c267d9.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Stone was a finalist in the Little Sydney Lives photo competition, which is run by City of Sydney and open to kids aged five to 12. Credit: Wolter Peeters<\/p>\n<p>A Wiradjuri boy, Artie is in grade three at Annandale North Public School, and has plenty on his plate between photography, skating, surfing and playing rugby league. He visits the skate park when he\u2019s staying at his grandparents\u2019 house on the northern beaches during the school holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Portside has a long connection to Artie\u2019s family. His dad, Tristan, was one of the original skaters when it was just a small ramp in the early 2000s. A labour of love, graffiti and concrete have slowly transformed Portside into an internationally recognised DIY skate park<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like how the skaters never give up, and I like the artworks in there,\u201d Artie says.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest trick Artie\u2019s done to date is a kickflip, but he\u2019s landed it only once. He\u2019s trying to master a \u201cpop shove it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u201cToo Wet to skate. My cousin Ginger\u201d: Arthur Stone\u2019s entry in the competition. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/48f1578dc09bbe9304775e7af1ebc3abb72b6fdbdb148cb6e399b8f1f43d52ec.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo Wet to skate. My cousin Ginger\u201d: Arthur Stone\u2019s entry in the competition. Credit: Arthur Stone<\/p>\n<p>Photography is also in the family\u2019s DNA. Artie\u2019s following in the footsteps of his grandparents, acclaimed Sydney photographers Louise Whelan and John \u201cOggie\u201d Ogden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI first tried it out in the middle of last year and my grandma helped me,\u201d Artie says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside an abandoned telecommunications building nestled in bushland on the northern beaches is a secret skate park, beloved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-34964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}