Cannot access photos in Time Machine

I backed up my MacBook on an external drive. I am trying to access my photos in iPhoto on the external drive. I asked this same question in 2010 and I used the answer to access my photos back then.
I have now tried the same process and no luck. I have tried several times over 3 hours and finally I was able to enter Time Machine through the iPhoto window - but there were no photos and I could not navigate by date.
Here is what I am doing:
1) Hold down "option" key while iPhoto loads and choose library for viewing external drive
2) turn on external drive
3) Enter Time Machine
4) iPhoto window opens up but there are no photos
Any help/advice on what I am doing wrong or not doing?
Thanks

Opening iPhoto libraries directly in Time Machine was never intended.
It was the upgrade to iPhoto 9 (11) that removed the option to Browse Backups as shown in the following screenshot:
With iPhoto 8 (09) we had the following menu:
That option was removed with iPhoto 9 (11).  So now all we can do is restore the entire library as follows:
1 - go to your Pictures folder.
2  - enter Time Machine.
3 - go back in time to get the copy you need.
4 - select it and click on the Restore button.
Do not try to open a library in the Time Machine folder with iPhoto. That's not what is intended use of Time Machine.
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