I was wondering if there's a way to have the slideshow start on a specific image instead of at the beginning of the album.

I ask so that when on an image page, cliking the "view slideshow" link starts the slideshow at the image being currently viewed instead of at the beginning.

If called from an image page the slideshow does start from that image on. On album it always starts at the beginning. Besides that it is not possible without hacking the plugin (or making your own custom one).

My bad, you are correct. For some reason I had thought otherwise, I guess I had clicked album link when I thought it was different.