Some of my photos show small when I double click them

I have a macbook air OS X 10.9.5 (13F34), iPhoto 9.5.1
I have just noticed an issue in my photos from 2008 to 2009. When I double click on the photos in this period small size photos come up, not full screen
at the start of the problem I note that one event seems to let me have full size, and another event straight below suddenly only allows me to click to a small photo
I don't know when this problem happened, obviously I certainly do not recall doing anything to cause this. Is there something I can do to get those photos back to full size.

I'm not sure if I know exactly where to find this, but this is what I see on the two examples of the same photo

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