diff --git a/md2html b/md2html
index f24a737..9ea47df 100755
--- a/md2html
+++ b/md2html
@@ -153,6 +153,15 @@ function inline(text) {
   next
 }
 
+/^!\[.*\]\(.*\)$/ {
+  txt = $0
+  filenam = $0
+  gsub(/(^!\[|\].*$)/, "", txt)
+  gsub(/(^!.*\(|\)$)/, "", filenam)
+  oneliner("img",""," src=\"" escape(filenam) "\" alt=\"" escape(txt) "\"")
+  next
+}
+
 {
   level(prefix "p")
   printf("%0" indent "s%s\n", "", inline($0))