A general rewrite rule is messing with image files

[galvin]

I have the following rule at the end of my htaccess file and its job is to take any url in the format mydomain.com/something and redirect it to mydomain.com/play.php?url=something.

 

This works fine, but I have images that are not showing up because the src is like "images/monkey.jpg" and I believe this rule is messing those up (because if I remove this rule temporarily, the images work fine).

 

What is the best way to handle this?  Is there some kind of rule I could put in place above this other rule that basically says "if anything starts with /images/, then don't try to rewrite it"? Or is there another way to go about this?

 

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ play.php?url=$1 [NC,L]