Displaying pictures embeded

I had an interesting idea. I have gallery2 installed. If I was to create a folder, say http://www.mysite.com/pics, and used mod_rewrite to change 1234.jpg (where 1234 is the itemid) into link.php?item_id=1234. And then put the @readfile embed line in that page. I like the navigation features of gallery2, but would like to be able to remote link certain pictures. Would this work?