Recovering deleted photos with Time Machine

Hi,
I've recently deleted some photos I had in Aperture (deleted from the event and then cleared the recylcing bin). I do however have and run Time Machine but I can't seem to get hold of the lost files.
Essentially all I need to know is where is the "trash" folder in the Aperture directory?
If it helps to explain the issue, here is the sequence of events:
1) Downloaded photos into Aperture
2) Moved some photos into the trash bin
3) *Time Machine Syncs"
4) I empty trash
When I run time machine at the moment in the aperture library, I can only see the not-deleted photos as expected based on the above events.
Any ideas on how I can recover the photos if it's at all possible?
Thanks
Adam

There is no Trash bin in the Aperture library package, where you can access the image files. But until you actually empty Aperture's Trash, the image files will remain in the Masters folder inside the Aperture library, package exactly where they have been stored after importing. Aperture only indexes them differently in the database files. If you still know, the exact date when you imported the missing photos, ctrl click the Aperture Library package in the Finder, use "Show Package Contents" and open the "Masters" folder. Open the subfolder for the year of the import, the month, the day:
With this Finder window selected, enter Time Machine and look for the missing photos in that folder.
If you emptied Aperture's trash, the files will have been moved to the Trash on the Desktop. Look for it there in your Backup.

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