Transfer photos from iphone to external hard drive

I have limited space on my MacBook hard drive. I do not use iPhoto, I use Aperture, and like I said I'm out of space. I want to transfer the photos and video directly from my iphone to my external hard drive. Either I'm blind or this is the most unintuitive thing Apple has done. Help please!

UPDATE:
I have just realized that when you do this, on the bottom left of Image Capture you can scroll down and adjust the setting so that when plug you iphone into your computer that image capture automatically pops up and not iPhoto or make it so no import program pops up at all. At the very least I am glad to have the option to not have iPhoto automatically pop up because I don't like it.
Also- you can select the box below this to have photos automatically deleted from your phone after they import. I was doing it manually on my phone and obviously this takes a while.

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