IPhone 4s: PC to Macbook Pro Help

We are switching an iphone 4s from a pc to a mac. What is the best way to do this without losing photo's? All of the music is on an external hard drive--- but we have lots and lots of pictures that are NOT backed up anywhere.

The music is easy as it is on an external drive-- it's the pictures I worry about.
If we plug in his phone to the macbook-- will it ask to import the pictues?
p.s. I know it is stupid not to backup-- it is my husbands phone. My phone is beautifully synced to my macbook and the photos are on my computer and backed up via time machine.

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