Missing photos found! now need bailing out, please...

need bailing out again....
and thankfully I know where to come.
This is a situation I should have found an answer to YEARS ago...would have saved me years of frustration, panic,confusion.
Some three years of photos one day just disappeared from my iPhoto library.
poof! gone! (Still no idea what I did). Just messing around today, in Finder, I just typed in jpg in the little magnifying glass, and oh my! some 12,000 somethings listed, all ending in .jpg
Not sure what some of them are, some some I am recognizing as my MISSING PHOTOS!!
So now I have:
Choose Application
Choose an application to open the document "fairfield029.jpg.orig"
Enable: Recommended application
All applications
Usually, when given a choice, and I don't really know, I will select what seems to be the default, what Mac seemingly wants to use. But everything is 'gray" won't allow me to select anything, nothing even
in my long list of what is my (hopefully) missing photos.
Can someone please add some insight of what it means when it wants ME to choose an application to open a document? How to choose? What to choose? Why is the computer needing my input? In my current situation, the only option I seem able to choose is Cancel.
Thanks for any input, and again, your patience and ever willingness to share your expertise.
ssandee

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