Why have I lost recently added photos from iPhoto?

My wife downloaded some photos of a recent trip to her iPhoto account, which fortunately also automatically saved on her iPad.  However, shortly afterwards the photos disappeared from the iPhoto folder (which still showed up in iPhoto with the same folder name but which was greyed out and empty).  I then downloaded all the photographs again from her iCloud account into the main photo directory.  This morning, trying to create an album of the best photos she found that the directly was yet again greyed out and empty.
Is this a common problem, and how do I get these photographs to remain on the computer hard drive?  I believe the iCloud account will only hold them for 30 days so time is pressing.
I am running the latest OS Maverick on an iMac.
Thanks
David

Do you have the iPhoto library iCloud preferences setup as follows on your Mac?

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