Iphone photos in time machine

I have downloaded photos from my iphone 4 into iphoto. When i look in the time machine only some of the photos appear as thumbnails whilst the others are white blank pages. the current time machine page shows them all correctly but earlier pages [back in time] only shows some of them correctly? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Ian

First be sure that you have disabled automatic syncing as outlined in step one.  If you don't, when you connect your phone it will start syncing and overwrite your backup.  Then you righ-click on the name of your phone on the left side of iTunes and select "Restore from Backup..."  from the pop-up menu that opens.  Don't click on Restore on the Summary tab.  It should look like the photo below:

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