diff --git a/blurry/__init__.py b/blurry/__init__.py
index a3fedc6..7cbebe1 100644
--- a/blurry/__init__.py
+++ b/blurry/__init__.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 from blurry.markdown import convert_markdown_file_to_html
 from blurry.open_graph import open_graph_meta_tags
 from blurry.plugins import discovered_html_plugins
+from blurry.plugins import discovered_jinja_extensions
 from blurry.plugins import discovered_jinja_filter_plugins
 from blurry.schema_validation import validate_front_matter_as_schema
 from blurry.settings import get_build_directory
@@ -69,6 +70,9 @@ def get_jinja_env():
                 }
             )
         ),
+        extensions=[
+            jinja_extension.load() for jinja_extension in discovered_jinja_extensions
+        ],
     )
     for filter_plugin in discovered_jinja_filter_plugins:
         try:
diff --git a/blurry/cli.py b/blurry/cli.py
index ef689b1..84e25c3 100644
--- a/blurry/cli.py
+++ b/blurry/cli.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from rich.table import Table
 
 from blurry.plugins import discovered_html_plugins
+from blurry.plugins import discovered_jinja_extensions
 from blurry.plugins import discovered_jinja_filter_plugins
 from blurry.plugins import discovered_markdown_plugins
 
@@ -27,7 +28,10 @@ def print_plugin_table():
     plugin_table.add_row(
         "\n".join([p.name for p in discovered_markdown_plugins]),
         "\n".join([p.name for p in discovered_html_plugins]),
-        "\n".join([p.name for p in discovered_jinja_filter_plugins]),
+        "\n".join(
+            [p.name for p in discovered_jinja_filter_plugins]
+            + [p.name for p in discovered_jinja_extensions]
+        ),
     )
 
     console.print(plugin_table)
diff --git a/blurry/plugins/__init__.py b/blurry/plugins/__init__.py
index d17b6b1..cb26555 100644
--- a/blurry/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/blurry/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 discovered_markdown_plugins = entry_points(group="blurry.markdown_plugins")
 discovered_html_plugins = entry_points(group="blurry.html_plugins")
 discovered_jinja_filter_plugins = entry_points(group="blurry.jinja_filter_plugins")
+discovered_jinja_extensions = entry_points(group="blurry.jinja_extensions")
diff --git a/blurry/plugins/jinja_plugins/__init__.py b/blurry/plugins/jinja_plugins/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/blurry/plugins/jinja_plugins/blurry_image_extension.py b/blurry/plugins/jinja_plugins/blurry_image_extension.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b831d72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blurry/plugins/jinja_plugins/blurry_image_extension.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import mimetypes
+from pathlib import Path
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+from jinja2_simple_tags import StandaloneTag
+from rich.console import Console
+from wand.exceptions import BlobError
+from wand.image import Image
+
+from blurry.images import add_image_width_to_path
+from blurry.settings import get_build_directory
+from blurry.utils import build_path_to_url
+
+warning_console = Console(stderr=True, style="bold yellow")
+
+
+class BlurryImage(StandaloneTag):
+    safe_output = True
+    tags = {"blurry_image"}
+
+    def render(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        (image_url,) = args
+        width = kwargs.get("width")
+        image_content_path: str = "." + urlparse(image_url).path
+        image_path = get_build_directory() / image_content_path
+
+        try:
+            with Image(filename=str(image_path)) as image:
+                image_width = image.width
+                image_height = image.height
+                image_mimetype = image.mimetype
+        except BlobError:
+            warning_console.print(f"Could not find image: {image_path}")
+            return ""
+
+        if width:
+            image_path = add_image_width_to_path(image_path, width)
+
+        if image_mimetype in [
+            mimetypes.types_map[".jpg"],
+            mimetypes.types_map[".png"],
+        ]:
+            image_path = Path(str(image_path).replace(image_path.suffix, ".avif"))
+
+        if not image_path.exists():
+            warning_console.print(
+                f"blurry_image: Could not find {image_path}. Skipping."
+            )
+            return ""
+
+        src = build_path_to_url(image_path)
+
+        return f'<img src="{src}" width="{image_width}" height="{image_height}" />'
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 026aa76..7e22d43 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.6.1 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.2 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "annotated-types"
 version = "0.6.0"
 description = "Reusable constraint types to use with typing.Annotated"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ files = [
 name = "argcomplete"
 version = "3.2.3"
 description = "Bash tab completion for argparse"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ test = ["coverage", "mypy", "pexpect", "ruff", "wheel"]
 name = "atomicwrites"
 version = "1.4.1"
 description = "Atomic file writes."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
 files = [
@@ -39,6 +42,7 @@ files = [
 name = "attrs"
 version = "23.2.0"
 description = "Classes Without Boilerplate"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -58,6 +62,7 @@ tests-no-zope = ["attrs[tests-mypy]", "cloudpickle", "hypothesis", "pympler", "p
 name = "black"
 version = "22.12.0"
 description = "The uncompromising code formatter."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -92,6 +97,7 @@ uvloop = ["uvloop (>=0.15.2)"]
 name = "cachetools"
 version = "5.3.3"
 description = "Extensible memoizing collections and decorators"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -103,6 +109,7 @@ files = [
 name = "click"
 version = "8.1.7"
 description = "Composable command line interface toolkit"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -117,6 +124,7 @@ colorama = {version = "*", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
 name = "colorama"
 version = "0.4.6"
 description = "Cross-platform colored terminal text."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*,>=2.7"
 files = [
@@ -128,6 +136,7 @@ files = [
 name = "colorlog"
 version = "6.8.2"
 description = "Add colours to the output of Python's logging module."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -145,6 +154,7 @@ development = ["black", "flake8", "mypy", "pytest", "types-colorama"]
 name = "coverage"
 version = "7.4.4"
 description = "Code coverage measurement for Python"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -209,6 +219,7 @@ toml = ["tomli"]
 name = "distlib"
 version = "0.3.8"
 description = "Distribution utilities"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -220,6 +231,7 @@ files = [
 name = "docopt"
 version = "0.6.2"
 description = "Pythonic argument parser, that will make you smile"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -230,6 +242,7 @@ files = [
 name = "dpath"
 version = "2.1.6"
 description = "Filesystem-like pathing and searching for dictionaries"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -241,6 +254,7 @@ files = [
 name = "ffmpeg-python"
 version = "0.2.0"
 description = "Python bindings for FFmpeg - with complex filtering support"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -258,6 +272,7 @@ dev = ["Sphinx (==2.1.0)", "future (==0.17.1)", "numpy (==1.16.4)", "pytest (==4
 name = "filelock"
 version = "3.13.4"
 description = "A platform independent file lock."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -274,6 +289,7 @@ typing = ["typing-extensions (>=4.8)"]
 name = "frozendict"
 version = "2.4.1"
 description = "A simple immutable dictionary"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -319,6 +335,7 @@ files = [
 name = "future"
 version = "1.0.0"
 description = "Clean single-source support for Python 3 and 2"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.6, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*"
 files = [
@@ -330,6 +347,7 @@ files = [
 name = "htmlmin2"
 version = "0.1.13"
 description = "An HTML Minifier"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -340,6 +358,7 @@ files = [
 name = "iniconfig"
 version = "2.0.0"
 description = "brain-dead simple config-ini parsing"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -351,6 +370,7 @@ files = [
 name = "jinja2"
 version = "3.1.3"
 description = "A very fast and expressive template engine."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -364,10 +384,26 @@ MarkupSafe = ">=2.0"
 [package.extras]
 i18n = ["Babel (>=2.7)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jinja2-simple-tags"
+version = "0.6.1"
+description = "Base classes for quick-and-easy template tag development"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+files = [
+    {file = "jinja2-simple-tags-0.6.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:54abf83883dcd13f8fd2ea2c42feeea8418df3640907bd5251dec5e25a6af0e3"},
+    {file = "jinja2_simple_tags-0.6.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7b7cfa92f6813a1e0f0b61b9efcab60e6793674753e1f784ff270542e80ae20f"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+Jinja2 = ">=2.10"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "livereload"
 version = "2.6.3"
 description = "Python LiveReload is an awesome tool for web developers"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -383,6 +419,7 @@ tornado = {version = "*", markers = "python_version > \"2.7\""}
 name = "lxml"
 version = "5.2.1"
 description = "Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -554,6 +591,7 @@ source = ["Cython (>=3.0.10)"]
 name = "markdown-it-py"
 version = "3.0.0"
 description = "Python port of markdown-it. Markdown parsing, done right!"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -578,6 +616,7 @@ testing = ["coverage", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-regressions"]
 name = "markupsafe"
 version = "2.1.5"
 description = "Safely add untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -647,6 +686,7 @@ files = [
 name = "mdurl"
 version = "0.1.2"
 description = "Markdown URL utilities"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -658,6 +698,7 @@ files = [
 name = "mistune"
 version = "3.0.2"
 description = "A sane and fast Markdown parser with useful plugins and renderers"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -669,6 +710,7 @@ files = [
 name = "mypy-extensions"
 version = "1.0.0"
 description = "Type system extensions for programs checked with the mypy type checker."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
@@ -680,6 +722,7 @@ files = [
 name = "nodeenv"
 version = "1.8.0"
 description = "Node.js virtual environment builder"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*"
 files = [
@@ -694,6 +737,7 @@ setuptools = "*"
 name = "nox"
 version = "2024.3.2"
 description = "Flexible test automation."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -715,6 +759,7 @@ uv = ["uv"]
 name = "packaging"
 version = "24.0"
 description = "Core utilities for Python packages"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -726,6 +771,7 @@ files = [
 name = "pathspec"
 version = "0.12.1"
 description = "Utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -737,6 +783,7 @@ files = [
 name = "platformdirs"
 version = "4.2.0"
 description = "A small Python package for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a \"user data dir\"."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -752,6 +799,7 @@ test = ["appdirs (==1.4.4)", "covdefaults (>=2.3)", "pytest (>=7.4.3)", "pytest-
 name = "pluggy"
 version = "1.4.0"
 description = "plugin and hook calling mechanisms for python"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -767,6 +815,7 @@ testing = ["pytest", "pytest-benchmark"]
 name = "py"
 version = "1.11.0"
 description = "library with cross-python path, ini-parsing, io, code, log facilities"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -778,6 +827,7 @@ files = [
 name = "pydantic"
 version = "2.7.0"
 description = "Data validation using Python type hints"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -797,6 +847,7 @@ email = ["email-validator (>=2.0.0)"]
 name = "pydantic-core"
 version = "2.18.1"
 description = "Core functionality for Pydantic validation and serialization"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -888,6 +939,7 @@ typing-extensions = ">=4.6.0,<4.7.0 || >4.7.0"
 name = "pydantic2-schemaorg"
 version = "0.1.1"
 description = "Pydantic classes for Schema.org"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "<4.0,>=3.10"
 files = [
@@ -902,6 +954,7 @@ pydantic = ">=2.6.1,<3.0.0"
 name = "pygments"
 version = "2.17.2"
 description = "Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -917,6 +970,7 @@ windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 name = "pyld"
 version = "2.0.4"
 description = "Python implementation of the JSON-LD API"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -939,6 +993,7 @@ requests = ["requests"]
 name = "pyright"
 version = "1.1.358"
 description = "Command line wrapper for pyright"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -957,6 +1012,7 @@ dev = ["twine (>=3.4.1)"]
 name = "pytest"
 version = "6.2.5"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -981,6 +1037,7 @@ testing = ["argcomplete", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "requests", "xm
 name = "pytest-cov"
 version = "2.12.1"
 description = "Pytest plugin for measuring coverage."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -1000,6 +1057,7 @@ testing = ["fields", "hunter", "process-tests", "pytest-xdist", "six", "virtuale
 name = "pytest-watch"
 version = "4.2.0"
 description = "Local continuous test runner with pytest and watchdog."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -1016,6 +1074,7 @@ watchdog = ">=0.6.0"
 name = "rich"
 version = "13.7.1"
 description = "Render rich text, tables, progress bars, syntax highlighting, markdown and more to the terminal"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7.0"
 files = [
@@ -1034,6 +1093,7 @@ jupyter = ["ipywidgets (>=7.5.1,<9)"]
 name = "ruff"
 version = "0.1.15"
 description = "An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust."
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1060,6 +1120,7 @@ files = [
 name = "selectolax"
 version = "0.3.21"
 description = "Fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -1128,6 +1189,7 @@ cython = ["Cython (==0.29.36)"]
 name = "setuptools"
 version = "69.5.0"
 description = "Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -1144,6 +1206,7 @@ testing-integration = ["build[virtualenv] (>=1.0.3)", "filelock (>=3.4.0)", "jar
 name = "six"
 version = "1.16.0"
 description = "Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*"
 files = [
@@ -1155,6 +1218,7 @@ files = [
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.10.2"
 description = "Python Library for Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.6, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*"
 files = [
@@ -1166,6 +1230,7 @@ files = [
 name = "tomli"
 version = "2.0.1"
 description = "A lil' TOML parser"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1177,6 +1242,7 @@ files = [
 name = "tornado"
 version = "6.4"
 description = "Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">= 3.8"
 files = [
@@ -1197,6 +1263,7 @@ files = [
 name = "typer"
 version = "0.6.1"
 description = "Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints."
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -1217,6 +1284,7 @@ test = ["black (>=22.3.0,<23.0.0)", "coverage (>=5.2,<6.0)", "isort (>=5.0.6,<6.
 name = "typing-extensions"
 version = "4.11.0"
 description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.8+"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -1228,6 +1296,7 @@ files = [
 name = "virtualenv"
 version = "20.25.1"
 description = "Virtual Python Environment builder"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1248,6 +1317,7 @@ test = ["covdefaults (>=2.3)", "coverage (>=7.2.7)", "coverage-enable-subprocess
 name = "wand"
 version = "0.6.13"
 description = "Ctypes-based simple MagickWand API binding for Python"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -1263,6 +1333,7 @@ test = ["pytest (>=7.2.0)"]
 name = "watchdog"
 version = "4.0.0"
 description = "Filesystem events monitoring"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -1303,4 +1374,4 @@ watchmedo = ["PyYAML (>=3.10)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "97f3dca65d2ff7f20db8edd47b2346631f1eb307eab78f9002eb08909bbba90e"
+content-hash = "c6aa303093c8a09f022adead8d88cd15aeb433ce4d303b89a7a5eaaed4dbe849"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d0a226c..38e6094 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ typer = "^0.6.1"
 htmlmin2 = "^0.1.13"
 pydantic2-schemaorg = "^0.1.1"
 dpath = "^2.1.6"
+jinja2-simple-tags = "^0.6.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.scripts]
 blurry = 'blurry:main'
@@ -70,3 +71,6 @@ python_code = 'blurry.plugins.markdown_plugins.python_code_plugin:python_code'
 python_code_in_list = 'blurry.plugins.markdown_plugins.python_code_plugin:python_code_in_list'
 punctuation = 'blurry.plugins.markdown_plugins.punctuation_plugin:punctuation'
 container = 'blurry.plugins.markdown_plugins.container_plugin:container'
+
+[tool.poetry.plugins."blurry.jinja_extensions"]
+blurry_image = "blurry.plugins.jinja_plugins.blurry_image_extension:BlurryImage"