Retrieve photos from trash

Somehow, all of the pictures that I had on my iphoto ended up in the trash and the trash was emptied. Is there any way for me to retrieve them or are they gone?

I've read a few good review for Data Rescue II for Mac (http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php).
If you finally area able to recover the files, or even if you are not, I HIGHLY recommend you get an external drive to back up your data, or at the very least back the files up on CD or DVD. I personally have redundant back up on my Mac. I use Time Machine pointed to one HD and I use another back up program (provided by Maxtor) pointed to a second ext drive. I have run into issues with both the Time Machine and the Maxtor Archives becoming corrupt and since I had a redundant back up, the data recover was a piece of cake. Granted this may be overkill for most, but since I do a lot of photography and graphic design, I can't afford to lose that data.
Also keep in mind at some point your hard drive(s) WILL die, you're then looking at a quite a bit of money to have someone recover the data from it.

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