Week 2 - How do we read a photography?

This week's reading was about the fact that we need to read a photography not only to look at it.

"Whenever we look at a photographic image we engage in a series of complex readings which relate as much to the expectations and assumptions that we bring to the image as to the photographic subject itself.
Indeed, rather than the notion of looking, which suggests a passive act of recognition, we need to insist that we read a photograph, not as an image but as a text.
That reading (any reading) involves a series of problematic, ambiguous, and often contradictory meanings and relationships between the reader and the image"

What I understood from this is that, if we look closer to a photography we realise that it has a much  deeper meaning that we tough at first sight.
Because we are photographers we are suppose to look closer and see the deep message in the the picture.

The other reading was about Composition.

I think the most important thing to keep in mind is
"One of the fundamental lessons in photography is to learn to photograph what you see, not what you think you see - it is too easy to make a photograph that coincides with your frame of mind at the time you pressed the shutter and not with what was actually in front of the camera lens."

I do this mistake a lot. And I think because of that I loose a lot of good shots.