diff --git a/atdb/atdb/settings/base.py b/atdb/atdb/settings/base.py
index 44ee30e981054689d74b66d045b2be17330fdd98..fc212fbe894e98bdaec3511d8669c44fe2fa5cfb 100644
--- a/atdb/atdb/settings/base.py
+++ b/atdb/atdb/settings/base.py
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ LOGGING = {
     },
     'loggers': {
         'taskdatabase': {
-            'handlers': ['my_handler','mail_admins'],
-            # 'handlers': ['my_handler', 'my_file_handler', 'mail_admins'],
+            #'handlers': ['my_handler','mail_admins'],
+            'handlers': ['my_handler', 'my_file_handler'],
             'level': 'INFO',
         },
         'django': {
diff --git a/atdb/logs/atdb.log b/atdb/logs/atdb.log
index f09c58db98621e7eedb3b08d0b16b83f118ec635..a16fd1f649461e06832f5360d559262c889244ac 100644
--- a/atdb/logs/atdb.log
+++ b/atdb/logs/atdb.log
@@ -155328,3 +155328,9 @@
 [2020-01-24 10:55:57,471] SIGNAL : pre_save Observation(191002141)
 [2020-01-24 10:55:57,471] handle_pre_save(191002141)
 [2020-01-24 10:55:57,485] handle_post_save(191002141)
+[14/Apr/2023 11:21:35,862] 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
+[14/Apr/2023 11:21:35,864] task 25485 - (regular) - 146233 has no plots, skipped.
+[14/Apr/2023 11:21:39,651] 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
+[14/Apr/2023 11:21:39,652] task 25485 - (regular) - 146233 has no plots, skipped.
+[14/Apr/2023 11:26:20,724] can only concatenate str (not "bytes") to str
+[14/Apr/2023 11:26:20,725] task 25485 - (regular) - 146233 has no plots, skipped.
diff --git a/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py b/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py
index 4ed7164f24cd2017fd4118bab319df089e697a9f..bdcdc4ced9edf9d324f601add44eceb1d14b0047 100644
--- a/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py
+++ b/atdb/taskdatabase/services/algorithms.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     Description:  Business logic for ATDB. These functions are called from the views (views.py).
 """
 import requests
+import base64
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from django.db.models import Q, Sum
 import logging
@@ -749,16 +750,18 @@ def construct_inspectionplots(task,source='task_id'):
 
                         if basename.endswith('png'):
                             # retrieve and evaluate the url first
+                            #logger.info('retrieve '+url)
                             response = requests.get(url)
-                            if response.status_code!=200:
-                                # try again
-                                logger.error(response)
+                            content_as_string = base64.b64encode(response.content).decode("utf-8")
+                            img_html = '<img width="800" src = "data:image/png;base64,' + content_as_string + '">'
 
-                            results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank"><img width="800" src="' + url + '" alt="'+basename+'"/></a></td></tr>'
+#                            results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank"><img width="800" src="' + url + '" alt="'+basename+'"/></a></td></tr>'
+                            results += '<tr><td><a href="' + url + '" target="_blank">' + img_html+ '</a></td></tr>'
 
                         plot_files.append(plot_file)
 
             except Exception as error:
+                logger.error(error)
                 logger.info('task ' + str(task) + ' has no plots, skipped.')
 
     return results