I think just a tad more DOF would have helped this. I think you exposed it well given the hot spot on the pliers/grips. Not too hot and the gradiation from light to shadow on the strawberry is nice.
If the point is to be abstract, then I like the photo- but the words are to explicit to be abstract compared w/ the rest of the photo. So i can't tell what anything really is except for the word chrome- i guess that's good b/c of the challenge, but in this photo particularly, it's distracting. I don't know how i feel