How to use and refer to images in the root like /images (while also having Image Transform plugin enabled)

[bcantoni]

Pretty new to 11ty and I'm migrating an old site which has a ton of images under /images which I'd like to keep in that same location. I feel like I'm missing something simple but I can't figure out how to refer to those images from blog posts.

For example I have this file in the source tree:
public/images/ocean.jpg

When the site is built, this file lands where I expect it:
_site/images/ocean.jpg

In a blog post (content/blog/fifthpost.md) I want to refer to the image in the root like this:
![Ocean view from a beach](/images/ocean.jpg)

But that doesn't work because the image plugin changes the reference to be under the 'content' dir like this:
<img src="content/images/ocean.jpg" alt="Ocean view from a beach">

Not including the image transform plugin or adding eleventy:ignore to the img tag make it work correctly. I'd like to figure out how to make this work without disabling the image transform plugin.

I have a simple fork of eleventy-base-blog to demonstrate what I'm trying.

Goals:

1. Images colocated with blog posts (processed by the image transform plugin)
2. Site images copied into /images and can be referenced in blog posts using relative links

Maybe there's a way to configure the image transform plugin to be off just for files that land in /images?