Allow name to introduce myself!

My name is Chad Sims and I am the owner, operator, and photographer behind Chadillac Visuals.

I was born in and raised in a small town in western Kentucky and after a stint in US Army I moved around a bit even spending several years in living in the deserts of Arizona until I eventually landed here in Panama City Beach in 2020 where I fell in love with the turquoise waters and white sand beaches of the gulf coast and decided to make it my home.

Although I didn’t pick up a camera until later in life I believe my inspiration often comes from my life when I was young. I spent countless hours at the news stands and record stores in awe of the images of far away places, stretched out choppers, brightly colored race bikes, muscle cars , rat rods and those classic album covers of the 70’s and 80’s. The images were powerful, leaping off of those glossy pages or through the clear cellophane wrap making me feel like I was there, part of the action, that moment frozen in time. That feeling is what I aim to capture each time I frame a shot and press the shutter.

If you have not figured it out yet one of my passions (besides photography) is motorcycles, they come up a lot in my world, not only do I love life on two wheels and photographing it, I made a career out of working in it ,making dreams come true for the folks that walked in the store. The downside to that career though is that you ultimately spend more time in the dealership selling motorcycles than enjoying the very thing that brought you to it in the first place, so in November of 2024, after almost two decades in the motorcycle industry I made the decision to leave that behind start my own photography business and make a few dreams of my own come true.

My Mission

To help you capture the memories you want to create while having the time to create some memories of my own.