I used a noised plane, subsurfaces and smooth drawing, but the problem is that my desert looks like waved plastic. I tried to use Fog to create sand floating araound, but it just looks blurred.
I think my "desert" reflects too much light, but how can I change that? Mirror Transparency is already set to zero.
How can I create a realistic desert?
This place looks good enough, but it could be much better.

And this looks blurred, even without fog:

Here it looks like plastic:
