Why do some photos appear white or partly white?

I have several thousand photos and i want them all to be available on my iPad.
After syncing several of them are partly or completely white some with only a narrow band of the photo appearing at the top.

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But I'd be very glad if anyone can explain why, in full screen view, some photos appear as smaller than others. That is, some photos appear with larger black borders to the sides and about half a centimetre of black border top and bottom. Normally photos go to the edge of screen top and bottom - which is as you'd hope, so you can see the maximum amount of detail.
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I used my time machine back up from my old expired power mac and uploaded the contents onto my new iMac.
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I went back and found the photos in the back up machine (25000) and dumped them on the iPhoto icon.
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