A two pairs of apples

Also a pair of pears and a spare pear.

The knife being too prominent grabs all the front-end attention? It forms a "visual barrier" to the real subject matters at the back. Normally knives, forks, spoons function as perspective guides leading the eye towards the center of attraction?

Perhaps to tighten the composition you have little place else to put the knife on a small table?.... which also appears slanting.

But I am sure you had a great roast lamb dinner with a suitably dry red?

Salvadore Dali would like this one (and, me too)

This is certainly different, well done.

Nice work

Might look cool rotated 90 degrees (a very nice shot either way, though)