Just had cataract surgery on one eye; not because I thought I needed it, but because my optometrist said I should.  (The other eye has a cataract also, but not bad enough to operate on yet.) The type I had was more "frosted" than yellow; but none of this was bad enough to affect my work, because I could still see pretty good.

Or so I thought.

After surgery, guess what?
I can now clearly see (with my corrected eye) everything is  brighter and "bluer"...as in less yellow. Also, everything is hyper sharp (you might say "normal"). Kind of like the difference between watching a VHS movie on an old CRT television as opposed to a Blu-Ray movie on a high-def flat screen.
Bottom line, I can NOW see that many of my submitted images are a little too blue (over-correcting out for yellow), and in some cases slightly out of focus and with noise and/or over-sharpened viewed at 100%

And I always looked at my images at 200% to evaluate. Didn't matter. Soft vision is soft vision at any magnification.

Bottom line, cataracts progress gradually over a period of many years (boiling frog syndrome) and you think it doesn't matter...UNTIL you have them removed.

Just info to consider for all you older photographers that think you shouldn't be getting so many rejections.

Yes, I'm 67 and got cataract surgeries 2 yrs ago. I could have put it off for years but my optometrist told me the real truth. I won't go into what he said, but I think that most people who make images should probably get the surgeries by age 65 or so. If you don't you will not see blue correctly. After surgery the colors of the world became much more beautiful.

Had both eyes done last year first in Oct second in Dec and it has made a huge difference to  my vision long distance  and to my photography. It was a piece of cake  and well worth the day surgery.

confirm.

i've bad myopia and if i use contact lenses or i take off my glasses my images look a bit less yellow, say 5%, no big deal but it's visible if i look carefully.

i was interested since a long time about LASIK but there are so many drawbacks i gave up with it.
too much trouble and too many risks.