good take on the challenge, intresting crop and at first I thought you had misspelled the title'16 times' turns out you knew what you were doing. Goodluck
Interesting take on the challenge, though isn't initially obvious. I think the setting up lets the shot down a little bit; the reflective surface at the bottom is kind of unreal looking, giving a portion of the shot a negative exposure type of look. And the positions of the forks appears a tad too random for a still life; one wonders if a more uniformed line or even a more fanned out approach might have been more effective.
The horizontal could do with some adjusting, thereby evening out the area of black at the bottom and not cropping off the top left fork so much. To be honest, the application of a chunky black border might have had the same effect.
My First Weighted Scoring System ™; composition + technical 1/3, challenge 0.50/1, post processing results 0.50/2, ooooh factor 1/3, originality 0.50/1 = 3.50 (rounded to 4)