re that "take a pic while USB'd to the mother ship". Dovetails nicely with needing to update 'iPhotos': found the Apple blurb on that
[Using the iPhoto Library Upgrader tool] to be entirely adequate/no superfluous factoids, etc.

(When you say photos "show up" I presume you meant: inside "Photos" (current moniker of iPhoto IIRC.))
And.. it Worked. 'Course now I wonder what Apple said about this and other options ... to the same end.
But I don't need to know everything..

Thanks!
moi.