This is coming along quite nicely!  Other than things that other people 
have mentioned, there are a couple of things that strike me.  First I 
would guess that there's be some snow melt bordering the lava flow. 
Currently it seems like the lava borders the snow directly and I think 
this is what makes the lava flow look "pasted on" to me.  I looked for 
an image to confirm this, but this was the best I found, and it's not a 
particularly clear picture of it:

http://www.spring.net/marci/Public/Hawaii/LavaOnSnow.jpg

It's also possible that the scene could benefit from some haze.  Other 
than the smoke plume itself, the air is very clear.  Part of this I 
imagine is because it gives a really nice contrast in the upper part of 
the image, but perhaps some small amount of haze could still help 
without destroying this effect.

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