Is it possible to disable the automatic linking of images in github markdown rendering? : <p>When github.com renders an image in a readme.md, it automatically links the image in an <code>a</code> tag.</p>

<p>Using either</p>

<pre><code>![][http://example.com/path/image]
</code></pre>

<p>or</p>

<pre><code>&lt;img src="http://example.com/path/image" /&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>The actual rendered content will appear as</p>

<pre><code>&lt;a href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8a545f12e16ff12fd...." target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8a545f12e16ff12f..." alt="" data-canonical-src="http://example.com/path/image" style="max-width:100%;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I understand the <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/why-do-my-images-have-strange-urls/" rel="noreferrer">github image caching</a> (on camo.githubusercontent.com), and that's fine, but I don't want the <code>a</code> tag to wrap my image.</p>

<p>I'm not sure if this is part of the github flavored automatic URL linking, or something specific images.</p>

<p>I am able to provide my own link (using my own <code>a</code> tag), but what I really want is no link, no <code>a</code> tag.</p>

<p>Is this possible?</p>

<p>thanks!</p>
