I am unable to import older photos! Help?!

Hi,
I am experiencing issues importing photos from my iPhone 4 to my iMac. Only recent images are imported through iPhoto when I connect my iPhone to my iMac. I have 330 images in "My Photo Stream" folder. There are images in this folder that date back to over a year ago. I would like to import ALL of these photos over.
How can I import ALL photos? I would appreciate any help.
What I have done:
-Rebuilt iPhoto database
-iCloud photo stream is enabled.
-Everything is updated (mavericks, newer iPhoto, iOS 7)
-My phone is not Jailbroken nor do I plan to do so.

SOLUTION
I went ahead and downloaded an app called iPhone Explorer on my iMac. I then used this app to go through my iPhone and found the photo stream images in a folder. I then extracted them onto my iMac.
I just do not know why apple makes things so difficult when it comes to retrieving old images.
iMatt

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