Need help - had to force quit iPhoto '09 and now I cannot see my photos

I just imported some photos and at the end when it asks for Keep Originals or Delete, I chose Delete and that action took me to a spinning beach ball. Since it did not complete for a few minutes, I decided to force quit the application.
I restarted it and realized that iPhoto did not have my imported pictures, and worse, it had successfully deleted the pictures from the camera!
Does anyone know of a way to somehow get those photos from somewhere/anywhere?

LarryHN wrote:
1 - it is recommended that you never have iPhoto delete your photos - import your photos and select do not delete - after dismounting the camera and verifying that the import went fine use your camera to format the media card - this both protects you from computer/software failures that can lose photos (as you just had) but also renews the media card format making such failures less likely
2 - at this time the only option you have is to use file recovery software like Media recover - http://www.mediarecover.com/ to recover the photos on your camera card
LN
LN
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Yes, I have learned the hard way that I will always "keep originals" and delete/format offline.
I have downloaded mediarecover and it seems to be great. It took a long time to do the deep scan, so I stopped it midway, but it had found 30-odd pictures already! Thanks for the recommendation, I will be purchasing the software

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