IPhoto Choose Photo AppleScript

There has to be a simple answer to this question, but I can't find it anywhere.
When writing AppleScripts for the Finder, there is a "choose file" command which opens a file select dialog.
I'm trying to write a script for iPhoto, but I can't find an equivalent command to open the iPhoto photo select dialog. Is there one?
Thanks in advance for your help!

I knew it would be a simple answer!
I'm working on an export script for iPhoto that will eventually do a bunch of things, but at this stage I'm just playing around with manipulating some of the data like titles, comments etc., and I was just trying to make it all work from within AppleScript.
I also tried Automator, trying to pass the selected photos from the "Ask For Photos" dialog to an AppleScript. I tried creating an application that does nothing but "Ask For Photos" and then using that in a script, too. In both cases, the script refused to manipulate (or even just display) any of the titles, comments, dates or anything else from the chosen photos.
Everything I've tried to do with photos I've manually selected in iPhoto has worked, so I'll just have to do it that way. It's no big deal, I just wanted to see if I could do it this other way.
Thanks for your quick answer!

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tell application "Photos"
activate
set imageSel to (get selection) -- get a list of selected images
set counter to 1
set currentfilename to ""
if imageSel is {} then
error "Please select an image."
else
repeat with im in imageSel
set title to the name of im
if not (exists (title)) then
set currentfilename to the filename of im as text -- retrieve the filename of image "Im"
set newname to currentfilename & "." & counter
set counter to counter + 1 -- increment the counter
set the name of im to newname -- write the newname to the title field
end if
end repeat
end if
return currentfilename -- return the filename of the last image
end tell
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I will check on the formating when I get home, I am pretty sure that I haven't used any no-ascii characters, but will double check.
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I keep my iphoto library on a second internal HD, so I thought I would just try making a complete copy of my iphoto library onto my desktop. Once I did this, I started up iPhoto with alt and choose the desktop version of the library and all worked perfectly, my iphoto albums showed instantly in my photo tab in itunes when I selected to sync with iphoto.
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I have no reason to believe that it is the second disc that is causing the problem, as that is where I have always kept my itunes and iphoto libraries and they have worked without problem.
(As I am writing this, it dawned upon me that I missed one important test, I should have tried the old library after I had renamed it, but stil in the same place.)
I am now suspecting that the problem may be linked to an external drive that I addded to the system at Christmas. This was a WD My Book which I use for backup, the link being that I use the software that came with it to do autobackups that includes my iphoto library folder. I am wondering if this software does something to the folder.
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A little more info for you...
--First thing to know and remember is this...Do not drag any images, folder of images into the iPhoto Library in the Finder. Images have to be imported into iPhoto within the application. Do not scan images and save them into the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder. Save them to another location such as the Pictures folder or even the desktop. You can then import them into iPhoto.
--You have a folder of images on your hard drive and want to import them into iPhoto. Drag the folder of images into an open iPhoto Library window and the folder of photos will be copied into the library, resulting in a new roll with the name of the folder. You now have two copies of those photos, the ones in iPhoto's database and the ones on your desktop. You can keep the ones on your desktop that you just imported as backup or you can delete that folder.
-- you scan a picture/pictures and save it in a folder. You cannot scan directly into iPhoto or the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder.
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-- You download pictures from your camera into iPhoto.
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