Laravel, Fetching image from public/uploads folder

Controller :

public function index()
{
    if (!file_exists("uploads/profiles/".\Auth::User()->id.".jpeg")) {
        $image = File::getRemote("uploads/profiles/default.jpg");
        return $image;
}

Error : Method getRemote does not exist.

and if I try 'get' instead of getRemote. It's showing the output which is given in photo.

via Chebli Mohamed