I know have a much better understanding of the issues that photo's can cause and shall be much more careful/considerate to the CO and other cachers when I take/upload my pictures.
As a newbie, I find the pictures very useful because I don't always know what I am looking for (since caches can differ hugely in terms of size and shape etc). I will always respect the wishes of the CO if I am ever asked to remove a picture. I take the pictures more as a log for me and my daughter so we can remember which ones we have found, where and when, but as I also store the images on my laptop, I don't necessarily need to upload them to my log.
I am hoping to create my first cache over the next few days and whilst I would love it for people to upload their pictures, I guess I would be a little upset if someone took a picture blatently showing the location.