Hey Donuts,
Our ipad does that too at times - this forum seems to confuse Safari, and it overlays all the images in really weird ways. Annoying as all hell.
If you want to take a piccie of it, press the start button and the power button together. Don't hold them down - just press them both at the same time. Takes a bit of trying to get the hang of it. That makes IOS take a screenshot of whatever's on the screen, and save the image to your camera roll. Handy for things like this, or when you need to email someone a list of photos on how to do something.
I'd suggest tapatalk, but I think I'm the only person who doesn't like it. I paid the money for it, and find it just all really bad. A really bad program (crashes constantly) and a really bad experience for browsing a forum (IMHO). Everyone else loves it, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I really dislike it.
Anyway, I can't offer you any solutions I'm afraid, other than to comiserate and tell you that it's probably going to keep reoccuring...
Cheers!
Matto