Display image from storage folder in view

Hi, I'm currently saving images that the user uploads to storage/dokumentarkiv/{{$building->id}}/byggbilder and using Intervention to also save a thumbnail of the image. Then I want to display all the images in a grid in my view. The code below is working, but I was wondering if there is a cleaner way to display the image as encoding the image to data-url gives me the base64 code for each image in the html.

My controller

public function storeImage(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $building = Building::find($id);

        $file = $request->file('imageInput');

        $fileName = $request->imageName;
        $fileOriginalName = $request->file('imageInput')->getClientOriginalName();
        $fileExtension = $request->file('imageInput')->getClientOriginalExtension();
        $fileSize = $request->file('imageInput')->getSize();
        $mimeType = $request->file('imageInput')->getMimeType();
        $path = $building->id.'/byggbilder'.'/';
        $thumbnailPath = $building->id.'/byggbilder'.'/thumbnails'.'/';
        $thumbnailOriginalName = $request->file('imageInput')->getClientOriginalName();

        $image = new Image;

        $image->name = $fileName;
        $image->original_name = $fileOriginalName;
        $image->path = $path;
        $image->thumbnail_path = $thumbnailPath;
        $image->thumbnail_original_name = $thumbnailOriginalName;
        $image->file_extension = $fileExtension;
        $image->file_size = $fileSize;
        $image->mime_type = $mimeType;

        $building->buildingImages()->save($image);
        $dateTime = $image->created_at->format('d-m-Y-H-i-s');

        $mImage = Img::make($request->file('imageInput')->getRealPath());

        $mImage->save(storage_path('dokumentarkiv/').$path.'('.$dateTime.')'.$fileOriginalName)
               ->resize(300, null, function ($constraint) {
                 $constraint->aspectRatio();
                 $constraint->upsize();
               })
               ->save(storage_path('dokumentarkiv/').$thumbnailPath.'('.$dateTime.')'.$fileOriginalName);

        return redirect()->back();
    }

The function that retrieves the image and passes it to the view

public function administration(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $moderator = Auth::user();

        $building = Building::find($id);
        $buildingID = $building->id;

        // Find the buildings users
        $buildingsUsers = $building->users()->get();

        // Find the buildings images
        $images = $building->buildingImages()->get();

        foreach ($images as $image) {
          $test = (string) Img::make(storage_path('dokumentarkiv/25/byggbilder/(30-01-2017-17-20-46)logo-test.png'))->encode('data-url');
        }

        return view('users.buildingAdministration', compact('moderator', 'building', 'buildingID', 'buildingsUsers', 'images', 'test'));
    }

I just hard coded the url to test if it works. I'll change this to be dynamic when I find a good solution.

My view

<img src="{{$test}}" alt="">

I also tried to just use this in my view:

@php
                        $img = Image::make(file_get_contents(storage_path('dokumentarkiv/25/byggbilder/(30-01-2017-17-20-46)logo-test.png')));
                        echo $img->response();
@endphp

But that just displays on the page as:

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Appreciate all inputs!