Having years ago used photobank in UK for my transparencies, I embarked on microstock a couple of years back, as I have family, farm and part time work, I am only a sporadic uploader of stock - have heaps of ideas and no time.
But microstock has really taught me to up my game in technique and to present clean images. to the point - I have had some down time lately and went looking at some of the newer images on the sites I sell through and WOW the quality out there is so amazing (obviously I need to up my game more!) and so inspiring - so other microstockers out there I am in awe of your talent!