An  EX- BANKER, -K G PADMANABHA  developed interest in  photography  when he attended a photography exhibition organised by YOUTH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY(YPS), BANGALORE  during his college days.  The works of distinguished photographers    SRI RAJAGOPAL  , SRI  B SRINIVASA,  SRI H SATISH  and few  others  inspired him to pursue serious photography.  He joined YPS CLUB in 1980 to seek guidance and learn vital aspects of artistic photography through workshops organised by the club. He won the top award under the category “Beautiful people” in all India photography contest conducted by KONICA – a film roll manufacturing company in 1981.

He did trekking in Western Ghats on hundreds of occasions, Himalayas for more than 35 times and widely travelled in picturesque countries like Norway, Iceland, Scotland etc   to photograph beautiful landscapes. Several of his landscape pictures have won awards and acceptances in national and internationals photo salons.

Besides landscape photography he started exploring other areas of photography like bird’s wildlife, people, street, cultures etc after buying a digital camera in 2010.  He started participating seriously in photo salons from 2017

He has over 200 acceptances in national and international salons. Following is the list of few awards won by him in the recent years.

AWARDS                                                                 AWARD SPONSORED BY

1)   CASH AWARD FOR BEST LANDSCAPE           DJMPC, COIMBATORE (INDIA) 2017

2)  1ST CASH AWARD                                                 Heavens of Karnataka, WORLD TOURISM   2018

3) 1ST AWARD-BEST BIRD CATEGORY                 NATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST 2017 -YPS CLUB   INDIA IN MEMORY OF  SRI TNA  PERUMAL

4)  FIP GOLD MEDAL-OPEN LANDSCAPE           2ND IRIS NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST 2019

5 ) PSA GOLD MEDAL AND SPECIAL RIBBON      BEAUTIFUL LIFE -INTERNATIONAL PHOTO SALON 2019

6) Mol HON MENTION                                               2ND PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, BULGARIA PHOTO CONTEST 2019

7) MOL DIPLOMA                                                          The International Exhibition of art Photography-CONTRAST 2019