Iphoto transfer of photos from iphone to iMac

I tried to export 1200 pics from iphone5 to iMac in iPhoto.  photos seemed to transfer and I deleted from my phone at prompt.  now i go in iphoto and these "new" event "folders" are empty. Where are my pics? I looked in icloud and I see 999 in "my photo stream" and most appear to be the pictures I was working with.  How do I get them to my event "folders"?  I am afraid my computer will sync with the cloud and I will loose my photos.  Please advise.

Thanks so much for your help Gail, some of the points you made helped me better understand iPhoto and icloud.  I ended up going to a store and getting help at the genius bar.  They could not figure out what had happened so they had to restore my phone from the cloud to the day before the problem started.  I lost a few minor things from 3 days (texts, photos) but got most of my "lost" photos restored back to my phone.  I have not yet imported them to my computer (a little chicken!).  I also signed up for one to one classes so I am going to spend some time learning more about iPhoto so I can better control my photos.
BTW something kind of weird - They restored my phone on Tuesday and it still says it is being restored.  I am sure it should be done by now!  It is plugged in and on wifi every night so not sure why it hasn't finished the process.  The only reason I am even aware of this (cuz the phone seems to be working fine) is that it says I have a software update to do and when I go to that window it says at the bottom "you can install this update when your iphone is finished restoring from the icloud backup."  I have another appointment next week so I figure I will deal with it then.
Thanks again for your help.  I appreciate that there are people like you out there helping to calm people like me when we panic! 

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