Thousands of Facebook followers believe image is real, again.
Add a 16′ Photoshopped image of a tiger shark on the beach at Jennette’s Pier to the collection of fake images of Outer Banks life cranked out by the infamous Alex Lex. Controversy rages around his photos, especiallt when they appear so real as to scare people, and he often uses other photographer’s work with out their permission. The News and Observer has the story.
“No, a fisherman did not catch and then pose behind a 16-foot tiger shark near Jennette’s Pier on Sunday.
The photo of the striped shark stretched on the sand just near the pier in Nags Head is fake.
Alex Lex, a notorious Outer Banks Photoshopper, has more than 50,000 followers on his photography Facebook page. Lex is responsible for images including enormous waves crashing into Jennette’s Pier, icebergs off the North Carolina coast, grizzly bears walking on the beach, Putin riding a horse shirtless alongside North Carolina’s wild mustangs, a sea turtle the size of a car near the Avalon Pier and a giant blue whale near Jennette’s Pier, among many others.”
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