Videos

Video: Kilauea Eruption December 2024 – August 2025

/ Rev. Eric Anderson / 4 Comments

Kilauea, whose peak rises just around 30 miles from my home, resumed erupting in the summit caldera in December 2024. As September begins, there have been 32 eruption “episodes,” including some very dramatic fountaining reaching heights of over 1200 feet. Of the 32, I have observed 14 and captured a very large number of photos and videos. I began to create summary videos, and have settled on producing them in three month intervals.

My great thanks to Scott Buckley, composer of “Snowfall” which I’ve used as the background music for each video, both for writing a great piece and making at available for use with a Creative Commons license.

December 2024 – March 2025

This video includes material filmed from seven visits to the caldera during eruption events.

April 2025 – May 2025

This video includes material filmed from four visits to the caldera during eruption events. It probably includes footage of the highest fountains I have observed to date.

June 2025 – August 2025

This video includes material filmed from two visits to the caldera during eruption events.

Sabbatical 2025: The Video

/ Rev. Eric Anderson / 2 Comments

During my sabbatical, which ran from February 1, 2025, to April 30, 2025, I had two major projects. In the end, I made progress on both but did not complete either.

I have a tentative list of stories which I will be preparing and submitting for publication. Just reading them took longer than I’d anticipated. I also didn’t make it to the islands of Maui or Moloka’i, in part because I’d had to schedule other needed appointments during that time. I do have a plan to complete that, however.

Something which hadn’t been on my list became enormously important: photography. Capturing the beauty I encountered really lifted my soul, and became the most restoring activity of my sabbatical.

For the time and for the wonders of the world formed by its Creator, I am deeply grateful.