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This one's for you. Not your coach. Not your parents cheering from the bleachers. Not the scouts who may or may not be watching. This is for you — the girl who set her alarm before the sun came up, laced her cleats in a cold car, and showed up anyway. You already know what it feels like to love a sport so much it doesn't feel like a choice. It just feels like who you are. Maybe you've been playing since you were five. Maybe you picked it up late and had to fight twice as hard

Every athlete has a moment that defines them. A swing. A sprint. A save. A look in their eyes right before everything changes. For 15 years, I captured moments that mattered — as Dusty Moon Photography, I built a career telling family stories, freezing time for parents who didn't want to blink. I learned one thing above everything else: **the right image doesn't just document a moment. It makes someone feel it forever.** Then I started photographing athletes — and I couldn't

Every season, thousands of parents do the same thing. They sit in the bleachers, watching their kid dive for the ball, stick the landing, or make the save that no one else saw coming. Their heart swells. They pull out their phone. They try to capture it — and they almost do. Then the team photos arrive. You know the ones. The pale blue backdrop. The forced smile. The image that looks like it could belong to literally any kid, on any team, in any town. The photo that has nothi