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Wow! Thanks for such nice comments, everyone. I really appreciate it! I am glad that it had as much impact.
LeeIs, very interesting take on it - I can see what you mean though. Kind of like a child that makes a scary shadow only to be truly frightened by it himself.
This image took 20~30 shots to get "right" as it was a purely natural light shot among a host of obstructions (both for my shooting angle and light angle). In addition, trying to lock in the focus on a shadow is not as clear as with a hard subject. I chose this particular version as it fully brought out my intent of showing all the opposites - shadow within the brightness, the subject within the darkness, the negative (shadow) with its positive (mantis).
Perhaps I shouldn't ruin a good thing by posting another image of the opposite view (focus on the mantis). But here it is - I intend to display these two images as a 2-image mat.