IPhone & iPhoto conspired against me: Deleted photos

Hey All,
I have Mountain Lion (**** noise) and wanted to free up some space on my iphone so I selected some photos and imported them to iphoto. In a DUMB move I opted to "delete photos on your iphone?" Now it said that he photos I imported are not in recognizable formats. Moreover, I don't see them in my iphoto anymore. I did not backup to the icloud or itunes backup recently.
Is there any way to get these photos back? Did they simply trash to nothingness or is there any way to find them on the iphone? HELP!!!!
Ps. I tried "Wondershare Dr. Fone" backup program, but that didn't find any of the trashed photos.
I have an iphone 4s.

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