Displaying images with shortcode

I discovered that there’s a way to display images in events such as: <img src="http://placehold.it/200x300"> and they’ll show up when I use the standard shortcode method of [events]. However, when I try the PHP in-page method of <?php do_shortcode('[events]'); ?> not even in the markup do they appear. Do I need to put something in my ‘functions.php’ file to make this work for me? Thanks a lot.

To see what I’m talking about, see the event here: link to site

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-events-calendar/