What you're proposing is actually the exact opposite of what I want to do.
I want to send only certain pictures to my imac via the wireless network in my home without using iphoto or icloud at all. What you're proposing is sending all my pictures from my iphone (as many as 20 or 30 a day), most of which I don't want to keep anyways, to a program I don't want to use and then spending time every day deleting dozens of pictures I don't want just so I can keep the 3 or 4 I do want. Why would Apple make it so that we have to do things completely backwards from what makes sense?
I've never met a person who wants to have every single photo they take instantly added to their iphoto library, or added to anything at all actually. Everyone takes tons of pics with their phones these days and everyone I know would like to send certain pictures to certain places... some to iphoto for inclusion in the iphoto library, some to their computer desktop for use in something else (ebay, craigslist, editing, emailing etc.) and some to social networks.
Inexplicably Apple doesn't offer this kind of integration. Their solution is "Send every picture you take to iphoto." Why? Frankly iphoto suc ks, and I don't want to use it at all if I can help it. So why can't I choose what I want to send and more importantly where I want to send it? My phone and imac are on the same network, why can't I just move a picture from my phone to my imac's desktop? Shoot, even my DSLR can do that. But not my iPhone? Makes no sense.