that was very helpful I have been playing with the path and I am still struggling. I have gone from not found to "exec format error". My error log has the following. The new code is below also.

[Thu Jul 28 13:59:07 2011] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of '/usr
+/lib/cgi-bin/images/Untitled-1.jpg' failed
[Thu Jul 28 13:59:07 2011] [error] [client ::1] Premature end of scrip
+t headers: Untitled-1.jpg, referer: http://localhost/cgi-bin/hellopm.
+pl

my code is below.

print     $q->header,                    # create the HTTP header
          $q->start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
    $q->img({-src => 'images/Untitled-1.jpg',  
   -alt => 'Powered by Perl'}),
          $q->h1('hello world3');         # level 1 header
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You look like you may have the wrong content type. Try

binmode STDOUT;  # a good idea
print $q->header(-type => "image/jpeg" );
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Thanks taht was it!