When I installed iOS 8 on my iPad there were a number of issues. I went to the local Apple store. They reinstalled IOS8 and it appeared to correct the number of the issues. A lot of my photos were scrambled and they reloaded them from iCloud and I was told that when this was completed all of the problems would be done.
I reconnected to my home network and finished downloading all of the photos. Things look a lot better. Missing icons were restored. But to my dismay I still cannot upload photos as I originally pointed out. Clearly Apple has a problem with their new operating system.