It was a cold and rainy Monday night as I trudged up to the Explorers’ Club‘s wood paneled headquarters on 70th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan. There were, as I expected in that weather, no cabs, and I had to make my way up over thirty crowded street blocks while dodging frustrated motorists and aggressive pedestrians who just wanted to get inside.

But it was important to me to be there. My club sponsor, Anne Doubilet, a National Geographic photographer,Women’s Hall of Fame diver, and undersea explorer, was presenting her beautiful photographs of her expedition to the North and South Poles, and I wanted to be there to lend my support.

This was one of the club’s many events that are also opened to the public on Monday nights, and, as usual, there were a wide variety of interesting people to meet at the preceding cocktail reception including David Moore,the Forestry Manager for the New York Restoration Project. This charity was founded by Bette Midler and works to create and restore NYC parks and community gardens.

Before Anne’s moving presentation, her daughter Emily Doubilet and Emily’s creative partner, Ashlynn Manning, presented their new MTV music video, “Hummingbird”  We were told that this was a new genre of music video called “biopop”  which is a combination of performance , music and nature.

Click here to see the video. We hear Ashlynn’s song in the background while we watch Emily and Ashlynn feed hummingbirds from cups of sugar water in their mouths. Emily said that she and Ashlynn had to lay there for about an hour and a half before they could complete the filming. The two woman were wearing a type of lip gloss that also attracted the hummingbirds to lick their lips.

Warning: Later in the video, there are close-ups of bats eating high above from flower shaped feeders- I’m not a big bat lover and this was a little unnerving to see.