diff --git a/sigal/image.py b/sigal/image.py
index bb4e670..787f8b4 100644
--- a/sigal/image.py
+++ b/sigal/image.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from __future__ import division
 
 import logging
 import os
+import sys
 from exceptions import IOError
 from PIL import Image as PILImage
 from PIL import ImageDraw, ImageOps, ImageFile
@@ -73,16 +74,16 @@ class Image(object):
         http://github.com/jdriscoll/django-imagekit/issues/91
 
         """
-        with open(filename, 'wb') as fp:
+        try:
+            with quiet():
+                self.img.save(filename, "JPEG", **kwargs)
+        except IOError:
+            old_maxblock = ImageFile.MAXBLOCK
+            ImageFile.MAXBLOCK = self.img.size[0] * self.img.size[1]
             try:
-                self.img.save(fp, "JPEG", **kwargs)
-            except IOError:
-                old_maxblock = ImageFile.MAXBLOCK
-                ImageFile.MAXBLOCK = self.img.size[0] * self.img.size[1]
-                try:
-                    self.img.save(fp, "JPEG", **kwargs)
-                finally:
-                    ImageFile.MAXBLOCK = old_maxblock
+                self.img.save(filename, "JPEG", **kwargs)
+            finally:
+                ImageFile.MAXBLOCK = old_maxblock
 
     def resize(self, size):
         """Resize the image.
@@ -126,6 +127,23 @@ class Image(object):
         self.img.save(filename, quality=quality)
 
 
+class quiet(object):
+    """A context manager for suppressing the stderr activity of PIL's C
+    libraries. Based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/978264/155370
+
+    """
+    def __enter__(self):
+        self.stderr_fd = sys.__stderr__.fileno()
+        self.null_fd = os.open(os.devnull, os.O_RDWR)
+        self.old = os.dup(self.stderr_fd)
+        os.dup2(self.null_fd, self.stderr_fd)
+
+    def __exit__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        os.dup2(self.old, self.stderr_fd)
+        os.close(self.null_fd)
+        os.close(self.old)
+
+
 def copy_exif(srcfile, dstfile):
     "Copy the exif metadatas from src to dest images"