[Python] during loading photo " path should be path-like or io.BytesIO, not <class...

I am trying to load a photo to ML project and I have error: path should be path-like or io.BytesIO, not <class 'PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile'>

def load_image_pixels(filename, shape):
# load the image to get its shape
image = load_img(filename)
width, height = image.size
# load the image with the required size
image = load_img(filename, target_size=shape)
# convert to numpy array
image = img_to_array(image)
# scale pixel values to [0, 1]
image = image.astype('float32')
image /= 255.0
# add a dimension so that we have one sample
image = expand_dims(image, 0)
return image, width, height


photo_filename = Image.open(r'C:\ML\Pies.jpg')
# define the expected input shape for the model
input_w, input_h = 167, 221
# load and prepare image
image, image_w, image_h = load_image_pixels(photo_filename, (net_w, net_w))


I see that photo is loaded but function cannot process it. How to solve this problem.

In the other codes I worked images opened this way could be processed like converting image to array and then processing it.

image = Image.open(r'C:\ML\Pies.jpg')
image = np.array(image)

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