Why are we as photographers drawn to raise our cameras to document a certain scene? Is it the idea that we want to capture a moment that may never happen again? I had these questions in my head while watching a band perform in Washington, D.C. The light show and the energy the musicians brought to the stage were moments I knew I needed to photograph.

The following selection of images—this week’s best submissions to Your Shot—feature moments that I believe the photographers needed to capture. Whether it was to document the process of plants being loaded onto on a semi, as captured by Tracy Walsh; a boxer listening to the instructions from his trainer as he prepared for