Purchased extra iCloud storage but nothing backed up

Hello all,
I recently traveled the UK and Europe for six weeks and used my iPhone 4s as my camera. I took so many photos that at one point I physically could not take anymore without purchasing more Cloud storage... so I paid for $20.00 a year of more storage. I was then able to take more photographs. I assumed that this meant these photos were being backed up to the Cloud.
Also, multiple times my phone said it had not been backed up in weeks... yet I had it plugged in, locked, and connected to wifi every single night of the trip. My phone was stolen after 5 weeks and I recovered absolutely no photos, despite the purchasing of more Cloud space.
Is there anything I can do to retrieve these photos?
Thank you for your time,
Spencer

The only photos in iCloud are your camera roll photos, which are included in your backup by default, photo stream photos from the last 30 days, and any shared streams you created or subscribed to. Also, only camera roll photos in your backup would require additional storage space as photo stream and shared stream photos don't use storage in your personal iCloud account
If you restore your backup that should recover camera roll photos that were on your device at the time it was backed up, and signing into your iCloud account should download photo stream and shared stream photos.
thejudge27 wrote:
Also, multiple times my phone said it had not been backed up in weeks... yet I had it plugged in, locked, and connected to wifi every single night of the trip.
That wouldn't necessarily ensure that your phone was being backed up daily. Any number of issues could cause a backup to fail, including intermittent or poor wifi connectivity, a corrupt backup that couldn't be updated, or something included in the backup that was interfering with the backup. When you are alerted that your device isn't being backed up you should try deleting your existing backup and backing up again. If that fails, try excluding items from your backup until your can identify the one that is preventing a successful backup.

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