Q: help me get my iphotos

You need probably to update iPhoto to version 9.6.1.

Apple stopped selling iPhoto, so you can only update, if you already own an iPhoto version, that appears in your Purchases history at the Mac App Store.   You cannot update from the Updates tab at the AppStore any longer, only by reinstallingfrom the Purchases tab.  See Barney's User Tip:

If you do not own an App Store version of iPhoto, you can open your iPhoto Library in the new Photos for Mac application. That is Apple's successor to iPhoto, to be used for photo libraries in El Capitan and the OS X versions to come.  To migrate to Photos for Mac see:   Updating from iPhoto to Photos for OS X - Apple Support

  https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204655