I have been working on this on and off for some time, and it has changed a lot from how it started out thanks to the help from some of my friends at the3dstudio.com forum.
the black rose idea came from a friend when she said she would only accept a black rose and another friend told me to put a white rose to contrast the black one.
the scene was insipired by something i saw on the street.
made with 3d max and rendered in Mental Ray with some post done in Photoshop.