gulp-image: Error: write EPIPE

I was using gulp-imagemin before, which worked perfectly, but wanted to give gulp-image a try. But it’s failing with a strange error.

$ gulp image
[07:07:05] Using gulpfile /Volumes/Dev/Web/Node.js/NoobGuy/gulpfile.js
[07:07:05] Starting 'image'...
[07:07:05] Finished 'image' after 14 ms
Error: write EPIPE
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:907:11)
    at WriteWrap.afterWrite (net.js:785:14)

Here’s what I have in my gulpfile.js

var image = require('gulp-image');
gulp.task('image', function(){
    gulp.src('./public/assets/images/**/*',{'base':'./public/assets/images/'})
        .pipe(image())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./public/assets/dist/images'));
});

I was using the same code with gulp-imagemin which worked properly. Am I doing something wrong?