Finding items in trash after it has been emptied

2 years ago when i bought my Mac I copied photos from my old PC to the Mac using a portable hard drive. I discarded the Pc and have used the Mac Happily ever since.
Today i discovered that all my photos dating back to before i got my Mac disappeared... They still show up in iPhoto, but when I click on them iPhot tells me it cannot find the original file...
I examined the iPhoto database and searched my hard drive and indeed it contains only thumbnails and instead of the original a thumbnail and an alias. The alias points to the original that was in my trash..
3 weeks ago I emptied my trash file for the first time. (it was 50G- I was surprised that it had never been emptied but it was taking up a lot of space) So it seems that several years of photos were deleted when I emptied the trash. It is of course bizarre that iPhoto was point to photos in the trash... (the path the alias indicates is Users/me/.Trash/ )
I have been making back-ups on 2 separate portable hard drives using Time Machine. But when I go into Time Machine I cannot locate the trash. An Internet search indicates that indeed TM des not back up Trash... is this true? I cannot go back to the folders before the photos ended up in the trash-most likely this happened before i ever installed time machine, back when I set up the Mac.
Is there anything I can do to get my pictures back? Are they still on my hard drive and is there a way to retrieve them even if trash has been emptied?

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news however they're probably gone. About the only thing I can think of is a data recovery service however this will be extremely expensive.
This won't help on this situation but you may find it extremely useful in the future. That is doing redundant backups. Time Machine is great but has a limitation in that it can't boot your system and as you know won't backup what is in the Trash. However if you get a second external HD (don't use your TM DRIVE!!!!!!) in addition to TM you can create a bootable Clone using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. These backups will clone your internal HD completely and will also be bootable in the event the internal HD crashes. Many of us use both backup tools for many reasons. In the event one backup fails for whatever reason in most cases you can fully recover. Had you had a Bootable Clone AND caught the issue soon enough you could have moved the photos that you have inadvertently placed in the trash back to your internal HD and you wouldn't have lost your pictures. There are many other scenarios where this can be helpful. For the cost of an internal HD (probably well under $100) you would have a solution.
Best of luck,
Roger

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