My Time Machine did not backup of my iPhoto library

I change macbooks recently and, before sell the old one (wich has just 6 months old) i make a Time Machine. Anyway, when i try to restore my library from that Time Machine, it has pictures of 7 year ago, all the pictures that i take in those last 6 months are gone! I can't see them. And i try to 4 differents dates to restore but was the same resault: Old pictures. All the other documents are on it but not any pictures from iphoto. Even i use the finder and check in the "show contents" in the Original Iphoto album but they're not there. Its a way to recover that?

Look my friend, i made a Time Machine copy just before sell it. Then that computer travel so far away from me you know? and since i check that i have all my works and some important information y imagine that i also have all my pictures on it. How can all my work folders be updated if they were create almost at same time that all the pictures and i have no pictures at all?
Its a shame that the Time machine don't copy the iphoto in the backup.

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