HT1535 using my iPad to move photos from one computer to another

Recently I visited my sister, who had a bunch of photos on her computer, and I wanted to bring them back with me to my computer. The online advice seemed to indicate using iTunes to transfer the photos to my iPad. This proved to be confusing, difficult and inflexible. I wasted a lot of time "transfering" one folder after another, only to discover when I was done that each folder I synced obliterated the copy of the previous one, leaving my iPad with only the last folder I "transfered". So, I transfered the folder containing all the sub-folders, and that worked (at least in the sense that I can see all the photos on my iPad).
Now at home, I'm attempting to transfer the photos to my computer (Mac - OSX 10.8.5) and I cannot figure out how to do it at all. When I attach my iPad to my computer via the USB cable, iTunes shows me photos to import from my iPad, but does not include among them the ones from my sister's computer. When it first detects my iPad there is an extremely brief flash on the screen that looks like it could be the full set of photos. So I guess iTunes is actually filtering out my sister's photos. My guess is it's designed to do this for music content, for which what I'm doing would most likely be theft.
Does Apple provide a way for me to move these photos to my computer? Am I alone in thinking that Apple has really bungled the iOS file system (if one can even call it such)? I'm sure they're trying very hard to prevent the iPad from disrupting their place in the laptop market, but I think they will lose both markets if they don't put a more standard file system on the iPad soon.

lizdance40, thanks for confirming my suspicions.
Do I understand your suggestion correctly, that I must get an account with a third party, upload the photos (possibly over a slow/expensive broadband service), and then download them (again, possibly over a slow/expensive broadband service) to my computer?
If I'd had a $20 USB drive with me, I could have just copied them to the drive at her house, and copied them from the drive at my house. No hassles, no laws broken, no bandwidth limitations, no hours spent searching for answers, no third party software/services. My $400 iPad can't emulate a $20 USB drive?
Having been suckered by the bad advice on Apple's own "help" pages, are you saying that I may as well just delete the photos on my iPad because I'm not going to get them onto my computer?
And no one here finds this disappointing?

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