diff --git a/src/config.ts b/src/config.ts
index eb2b17a..86a36ff 100644
--- a/src/config.ts
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { isWhiteSpaceOnly, splitSpecial, surround, tagSurround, trimNewLines } from './utilities';
+import { encodeUrlParens, isWhiteSpaceOnly, splitSpecial, surround, tagSurround, trimNewLines } from './utilities';
 import { PostProcessResult, TranslatorConfigObject } from './translator';
 import { NodeHtmlMarkdownOptions } from './options';
 
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ export const defaultTranslators: TranslatorConfigObject = {
     const title = node.getAttribute('title') || '';
 
     return {
-      content: `![${alt}](${src}${title && ` "${title}"`})`,
+      content: `![${alt}](${encodeUrlParens(src)}${title && ` "${title}"`})`,
       recurse: false
     }
   },
diff --git a/src/utilities.ts b/src/utilities.ts
index 4442b5d..59945fd 100644
--- a/src/utilities.ts
+++ b/src/utilities.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ export const trimNewLines = (s: string) => s.replace(/^\n+|\n+$/g, '');
 export const surround = (source: string, surroundStr: string) => `${surroundStr}${source}${surroundStr}`;
 export const isWhiteSpaceOnly = (s: string) => !/\S/.test(s);
 
+/**
+ * Percent-encode parentheses in a markdown link/image destination. An unescaped `)` ends the
+ * destination early, so an `<img src="foo)bar.png">` would otherwise produce `![](foo)bar.png)`,
+ * which a parser reads as an image of `foo` followed by literal `bar.png)` text.
+ */
+export const encodeUrlParens = (url: string) => url.replace(/\(/g, '%28').replace(/\)/g, '%29');
+
 /**
  * Split string, preserving specific newline used for each line
  */
diff --git a/test/default-tags.test.ts b/test/default-tags.test.ts
index a202691..cfb7b1e 100644
--- a/test/default-tags.test.ts
+++ b/test/default-tags.test.ts
@@ -59,14 +59,18 @@ describe(`Default Tags`, () => {
 
   test(`Image (img)`, () => {
     const url = `http://www.github.com/crosstype/`
+    // Parentheses in the src would otherwise break the markdown destination
+    const specialUrl = 'http://www.github.com/crosstype/img(123).png';
+    const encodedSpecialUrl = 'http://www.github.com/crosstype/img%28123%29.png';
     const res = translate(`
         <img src="${url}1">
         <img title="t2" alt="a2"> <!-- This node is elided due to no href -->
         <img src="${url}3" title="t3">
         <img src="${url}4" title="t4" alt="a4">
         <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R/"><!-- This node is elided due to default option keepDataImages = false -->
+        <img src="${specialUrl}" alt="a5">
     `);
-    expect(res).toBe(`![](${url}1)` + ` ![](${url}3 "t3")` + ` ![a4](${url}4 "t4")`);
+    expect(res).toBe(`![](${url}1)` + ` ![](${url}3 "t3")` + ` ![a4](${url}4 "t4")` + ` ![a5](${encodedSpecialUrl})`);
   });
 
   test(`Pre-formatted Text (pre)`, () => {