Lazy Eye with weird light reflection in pictures?

I had a lazy eye when I was a toddler and had corrective surgery at age 3. Now, although I don't use my left eye as often as my right, my vision is fine and my eye is no longer crossed at all. One thing I've noticed though is that in pictures, I tend to have extreme red-eye in my left eye. I have very pale blue eyes, so red-eye is something I'm prone to with flash photography, but my left eye tends to be more red and glowy, and in some cases is a white/bright yellow color that photoshop can't even correct. Any ideas why this is happening? It's been happenening since I've had a digi camera, which was about 7 years ago.

I worry like crazy, and have read a lot about that eye cancer that is common in children, so I already know about that. Just wondering if anyone has any other ideas or similar experiences with photographs, especially people who had/have a lazy eye.

Thanks, sorry this was forever long!

Thanks for the answers so far! I just want to emphasis the fact that in some pictures, my left eye isn't reflecting red, it's a white/bright yellow reflection. Here is a link with a pic taken a few days ago : http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/_...

yes, this is very common, as the other posters have suggested.

while it is true that some "eye cancers" cause weird reflexes, it is highly unlikely that you have any of those. the most common one is retinoblastoma, and you would have been diagnosed with that very, very early on.

having a strange light reflex is no big deal as long as you know the cause. which of course in your case you already do know the cause: previous strabismus with surgical intervention.

if you had one red reflex and one white-ish reflex and you had NOT had strabismus and had NOT had surgery...THEN it might be cause alarm, or maybe just more interest. but in a known case of previous strabismus surgery, weird reflexes are normal

What you are seeing in pictures is what my pediatric ophthalmologists actually look for in children for orthotropia, or straight vision. It is called a red reflex. It is a reflex of the light hitting your retina and reflecting back. My daughter had a pseudoesotropia when she was very little and her pediatric ophthalmologist said that seeing that 'red eye' effect in photos was a good way to tell if she was developing a strabismus or not.

To try and decrease the red eye in photos, you can try looking just off to the side of the flash...not super far from it...but if the photographer says to look at an object..look just barely to the side and past that object (I used to look possessed in my photos with red eye also...and this is what I have done). If you look at the flash, you will notice that the red eye is worse.

My best friend has a mild lazy eye, and she ALWAYS has major red eye in pictures, whether she is looking at the flash or not. It's always much worse in low-light conditions, like pictures taken indoors in dim light. Ever since I've known her, we've always joked that she must be possessed or something because, even if no one else has red-eye, she always does!

She also has slightly larger than normal pupils, so we've always attributed that to her constant red-eye. I never would have thought to associate it with the lazy eye.