Other ways, apart from emailing them:
Connect your phone to the laptop, using a USB cable. Then locate your phone on your laptop and open up the folder containing the photos and drag your photos across and drop them on to your desktop, or a suitable folder.
If you don't have a USB cable, you can do it without one, by installing an app onto your phone, called "Airdroid". Then go to
http://web.airdroid.com/ on your laptop and scan the QR code with your phone, to connect your phone to your laptop and then locate the folder containing the photos and drag them across.