How do I transfer photo albums from iPhone to my Mac?

I recently had to purchase a new macbook pro due to the untimely demise of the previous version. I didn’t have a recent back-up, and the external that had my back-up also turned out to be broken so getting the files off of it is not do-able, even through data retrieval services.

I transferred all my music from my iphone to itunes through senuti, and have transferred all my pictured via iphoto, but what I want to transfer are the actual photo albums. Does anyone know how to do this? is there any way to do this without third party software?