The explanation for this line is that Anchor doesn't display the image from the custom field correctly. So I had to add the missing part of the path. It works just fine, but now the problem is that I get horrendous icons on Safari when there is no image fetched in the field image:
<?php echo "<img src='http://www.firstpartoftheurl/" . article_custom_field('image') . "' alt=' ' height='300' >"; ?>
May I show this line only when the custom field is populated? And how can I hide custom fields when they are empty?